The Living Skyscraper

Blake Kurasek

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”, marina and shipping dock where the fresh produce grown in the tower would be for sale to the general public and for distribution back into the city of Chicago.

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