New York City's Dragonfly A Locavore Wet Dream
Posted by Big Gav in green buildings, locavore
TreeHugger has an Inhabitat style green building fantasy, this one a vertical farm proposed for New York - New York City's Dragonfly A Locavore Wet Dream.
Architect Vincent Callebaut will have locavores drooling if his 128-floor vertical farm concept is actually realized.
The Dubai-esque Dragonfly addresses issues like food production and agriculture in cities that are horizontally-challenged for space like New York City. The concept supports housing, offices, laboratories and twenty-eight different agricultural fields.
Set at the Southern bank of New York's Roosevelt Island, the Belgium-designed Dragonfly consists of two towers and is completely Hobbit free. It's a 2,000 foot tall structure that harnesses both solar and wind power. In fact, it's completely self-sufficient!
The exterior gardens are used for capturing and filtering rain water. Using the water, and domestic liquid waste, the water is recirculated and used for irrigation.
The greenhouse, which gives the structure its wing-like design, supports the load of the building and is inspired by the structural exoskeleton of dragonfly wings.
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