Vertical community
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about vertical community
Project • By superspace • Farms
uplife
a predominantly urban nation since 2011, china challenges with the problems of dense urbanization, industrialization, air pollution, and climate change. a declining farming population with implications to food security is not doing any good.
uplife makes the most of urban and rural living in a strong and happy vertical farming community with the help of technology blended into architecture.
uplife is a prototype hybrid project for a “vertical intelligent community” that embodies digitally enhanced technologies integrated into architecture in response to an ongoing phenomenon of climate change, air pollution, and thus life expectancy in densely populated cities in Asia. in this respect, the first ten floors of this 28... More
Project • By superspace • Residential Landscape
nyc farmy
with the global population expected to reach 9.8billion by 2050, food demand will be %60 more than it is today, and climate change, urbanization, soil degradation will not help any, in addition to water shortages, and pollution. it will not do any good losing farmers into city life either.
we need to come to our senses before it is too late and we need to act now!
superspace
Hudson River was where the Highline roughly stands now when explorer Henry Hudson arrived in 1609, long before the city started selling ‘water lots’ which developers rushed to buy some of the Hudson rivers to turn into factories, warehouses, and living quarters for immigrants. the area of the project was as important as fishing, hunt... More