Friday, October 3, 2014

Floating Gardens

In a pilot project for the shores of Singapore, Barcelona-based firm JAPA has designed a network of looping towers floating on the shoreline to house crops for the increasingly land-poor nation.

"What we propose is not just a single tower but it's like a network of towers that will produce agriculture via hydroponics," said Javier Ponce, head architect and founder of Forward Thinking Architecture, the ideas lab for JAPA.

"All the crops will be produced inside the vertical structures that will be placed or located next to the cities and more dense areas.

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