Friday, 4 September 2009

The Dragonfly

Just seen this cool site from an architect by the name of Vincent Callebaut.

 
One of his latest projects is called the dragonfly which is an urban farm for New York. The building is designed to be totally self sufficient, here's the blurb:
The tower, true living organism, becomes thus metabolic and self-sufficient in water, energy, and bio-fertilizing. Nothing is lost; everything is recyclable to a continuous auto-feeding!
The skyscraper will also have gardens, orchards, meadows, rice fields, farms and suspended fields, and to produce meat, milk, poultry and eggs, as well a variety of fruit and veg. Not half bad.

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