Rotating Vertical Farm
Hammons School of Architecture Librarium Award 2018 At-Large Winner
Project Background:
A 55-story vertical urban farm located in Denver, Colorado River North District.
Virtual Reality 360 Panoramic views available at:
https://www.insitevr.com/p/BylD-OjKQG#5
Design Intentions:
With an aggressive proposal to move farming from a large, natural, flat footprint into a tall, man-made, small footprint structure, the design of the farm is intended to showcase an aggressive design proposal. A vertical farm has not yet been tested on this large of a scale, so this farming tower will act as an educational tower. All aspects of this tower will be studied for us to learn about the possibilities of urban farming to perfect them for future growth in city-setting farming.
My proposal is to create ample farm space utilizing all urban farming technologies in farming spaces that rotate. Rotation can create and manipulate many variables that can prove beneficial for man-made, controlled farming. For example, to follow sun paths to capture the most sunlight in a given day.
This farm is to act as a machine and have as little carbon footprint as possible. Wind energy farms are distributed up the building to utilize strong Denver winds to help power the building. Transparent solar photovoltaic panels are used around each glass facade to capture more energy as the farms rotate to follow the sun.
