Liana Farm
Vertical Farm in New York/competition project
The idea of the proposal is to change the way of cultivating plants, to give up horizontal orchards filled with soil as these slabs require massive bearing structures, which make the slabs thick and heavy. It also supposed to appropriate and effectively realize the ideas of key trends in architecture, including metabolism and organic architecture. LIANA FARM suggests using tank agriculture instead. Cables sustain lightweight liana-like structures (stalks). These stalks are filled with water, provided by horizontal tanks, located in the core of the residential part. The stems are not only orchards, they serve as a ventilation system, and some accumulated rainwater. Here hydroponically grown tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers greens. and other crops.
Planned to take water from the Hudson River cleaned and then spread throughout the stems. The cross section of some stalks will be smaller and some will be wider, depending on the root system of the particular culture. There are about 500 slots for the plants in each stalk. The farm will be able to provide people with food during the holidays, such as turkey for Thanksgiving day or pumpkin for Halloween. Communication inside the farm is provided by a network of catwalk bridges and pulley buskets also used for collecting plants. Walking through the void filled with liana-like orchards gives an impression of being inside a tropical forest. Just imagine that you are in the jungle just in Manhattan. The shell is made of glass that lets the UV rays pass through. The glass itself has a special reflection gardient, so that the amount of reflection would depend on the weather. The building itself is highly efficient as it uses biodegradable waste to produce energy for the residential and agricultural parts of the building. Those faces of the building that cannot be illuminated by direct sunlight are provided with light beams reflected from helioscopic panels, located on the rear side of the shell.
