Connecting Architecture and Food Production
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 2:31PM 
Can living walls be an agronomical structure while still defining architectural spaces? Looking at the first principles of a structure and building skin we have elements like roof, walls, floor, comfort, protection, and aesthetics. Yet, how can we take that a step further to incorporate the context of the built environment? The architectural design should serve to promote the function of the organic farm in a physical and tactile way. The idea that the skin could produce food brings up the new concept of vertical farming. If we could take food production beyond just a live roof and had crops growing on the interior walls, it would open up the possibilities for a new relationship between building and site. Not only would it begin to redefine what food production means, but create a new symbiotic relationship between plants and building occupants. The room heat would extend crop cycles well into colder months, when frost and exterior temperatures begin to limit the planting seasons. Plants in turn would purify the air, and help create heat in a greenhouse effect that could then be used to decrease energy waste in terms of environmental controls. The location of the vertical-crop panels would not only begin to define the public and private spaces of the building, but would segue into a paneled, plug-and-play, system structure and skin. For example, crops would progress from being on the ground, to being a shade, to being interior vertical walls, to a green roof – all as public spaces progress to working areas and kitchens, then private living/sleeping quarters. With that, the skin can not only produce food, but redefine architecture's awareness with a new green-house.
Jessica Fuller
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Can the panels rotate? Can the wall be a double skin greenhouse?
Good idea but would these be limited to wall locations near windows for adequate light? If artificial light would be used, what types of requirements might be necessary and how might this influence energy consumption? From a different perspective, what might be the types of "crops" to minimize the need for light?
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