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The High Garden

Part 2 Project 2020
Farid Abbasi
Umeå University | Sweden
By 2050, The earth’s population will increase by 3 billion and building sector is asked to construct 3 billion new units inside cities. Since one of the human’s fundamental needs is food, the agriculture sector also needs to adjust itself to this growth. Nevertheless, in 2019, Agriculture used 50 per cent of all earth’s habitable land and experts estimate that we need 109 hectares more land to cultivate. Moreover, the FAO states that water use grew twice as much as population increase and agriculture already is using approximately 70 per cent of the global freshwater. At this point, experts like Professor Despommier suggests that the only way humanity can tackle its future food safety issues is to find ways to introduce vertical farming inside Urban centres. The High Garden project is resulted by the world state today and is trying to find an architectural solution to these problems. The project starts its investigation by studying the Vertical farming advantages over conventional geoponics and then designs two main architectural solutions for integrating the vertical farming inside cities. Concerned about the LCA of the materials and to reduce the project’s carbon footprint and construction cost, the project follows a modular design approach

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