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Urban Food Jungle
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A sculptural indoor park or futuristic urban farm?In a rapidly urbanizing world, we are faced with a very real
challenge—supporting a larger population with fewer resources. The Urban Food
Jungle is conceptual design that responds to the threat of food security by
bringing together sustainable food production, entertainment, education and
culinary delight. An aquaponic system circulates nutrient rich water from a
series of fish ponds to the top of dramatic sculptural pillars, nourishing a
variety of fruits and vegetables as they filter and clean the watercreating a
lush Urban Food Jungle. Ground-level pedestrian circulation enables easy
visitor access; meanwhile a floating seed-like juice bar serves products
created from food grown on site. Completing this holistic system, food grown in
the Urban Food Jungle can be used to supply local restaurants.
The high yield design has
the potential to be deployed throughout various cities—addressing food scarcity
through positive impact design. Designer James Haig Streeter explains:"We all love
to talk about 'low impact design' but shouldn’t we be pushing the bar? How about we talk about 'positive impact
design' instead? Not just reducing the
impacts of what we do but positively giving back to the ecosystems to which we
belong.
The Urban
Food Jungle is a step in this direction.
With more than half the world’s population having moved away from the
land where food is grown, food miles are escalating, city infrastructure is
being strained, and food security concerns increase. The Urban Food Jungle closes the loop, once
more growing food close to where it’s consumed.
This has the potential to permeate our city fabrics, building skins,
plazas and water features, creating productive cityscapes in the truest sense
of the word. The best part is that it
doesn’t rely on any futuristic technology to work, simply a retuning of what we
do already—positive impact design that can be achieved today."
challenge—supporting a larger population with fewer resources. The Urban Food
Jungle is conceptual design that responds to the threat of food security by
bringing together sustainable food production, entertainment, education and
culinary delight. An aquaponic system circulates nutrient rich water from a
series of fish ponds to the top of dramatic sculptural pillars, nourishing a
variety of fruits and vegetables as they filter and clean the watercreating a
lush Urban Food Jungle. Ground-level pedestrian circulation enables easy
visitor access; meanwhile a floating seed-like juice bar serves products
created from food grown on site. Completing this holistic system, food grown in
the Urban Food Jungle can be used to supply local restaurants.
The high yield design has
the potential to be deployed throughout various cities—addressing food scarcity
through positive impact design. Designer James Haig Streeter explains:"We all love
to talk about 'low impact design' but shouldn’t we be pushing the bar? How about we talk about 'positive impact
design' instead? Not just reducing the
impacts of what we do but positively giving back to the ecosystems to which we
belong.
The Urban
Food Jungle is a step in this direction.
With more than half the world’s population having moved away from the
land where food is grown, food miles are escalating, city infrastructure is
being strained, and food security concerns increase. The Urban Food Jungle closes the loop, once
more growing food close to where it’s consumed.
This has the potential to permeate our city fabrics, building skins,
plazas and water features, creating productive cityscapes in the truest sense
of the word. The best part is that it
doesn’t rely on any futuristic technology to work, simply a retuning of what we
do already—positive impact design that can be achieved today."
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