Alimentos

VF - Type O (Vertical Farm - Type Organic) can offer the perfect solution to the main crises the world faces today such as deforestation, population increases, climate change, pollution, depleting resources, dwindling ecology, decreasing food supplies, urban heat island effect and more. VF: 12 Floors of indoor faming space + 2600m2 per of Indoor Farming per floor + over 30,000m2 of quality controlled Indoor Farming in Total Orchards + 25000m2 of outdoor quality controlled area  Organic Links: the…

The urban environment and the resulting high-rise buildings need to play a more important role in the city. The new skyscraper will be able to produce commodities to support its occupants and surrounding urban population. Functions of hydroponics, urban farming, and urban community food production will result. A large portion of the tower consists of residential apartments/condos interspersed with areas of commodities such as fruits, vegetables and cash crops. The ground levels of the tower combine a “Farmer’s Market”,…

Cities are dynamic entities where the abandoned territories are mutable, in keeping with economic interests, urban plans, diverse occupations, etc... Urban vegetable gardens are spontaneous appropriations of neglected territories. They are an impulsive way, through which the local inhabitant reverts neglectfulness into something productive. Their development doesn’t obey to any predefined strategy, but rather to scattered tactics, that take advantage from the particularities of the context where they are inserted, to create an immediate answer far from any conventional…

After living a few years in the United States, my attention was caught by a handful of people who chose to escape the wasteful aspects of more typical American living by ignoring the pristine suburban lawn aesthetic, reducing their contribution to the human footprint, and advocating environmental awareness in general. I started looking for more of these “Eco Heroes” and upon finding many living throughout Berkeley and Oakland, California, I began photographing them to document their work. In this…