Urbanana is an intensive banana farm in a medium-sized ‘Haussmann’-period Parisian building
Urbanana is a prospective research study on urban farming.
The Agricultural Urbanism Lab (LUA) was created in 2012 by SOA, an architectural practice, Le Sommer Environnement, a consultancy specialised in environmental engineering in architecture and Le Bureau d'Etudes de Gally, specialised in landscape and plant and agricultural innovation. LUA is a platform for reflection and exchanges aimed at promoting and developing agricultural urbanism, and defines itself as a collaborative structure bringing together its members’ competences and efforts for innovative projects. Regarding the city as a sustainable environment in the fullest sense, the LUA places man at the heart of its reflection. ww.lua-paris.com
