project11:Performance
Performance
How the building works
Finding a simple but elegant construction principle
Constructional concept
In the Grasshopper script a rule of fist is used to dimension the height of the wooden beams and the thickness of the columns.
Grasshopper script of the construction
Exploded view
Vertical Gardens
These images show a vertical farming project in Singapore which include series of water-powered rotating trays that grow several types of vegetables. In this way, all the trays get enough sunlight. The use of vertical farms has a lot of advantages over other forms of urban agriculture. For example, you can squeeze more plants on the same square meters, therefor it's a perfect solution for urban areas.
Vertical garden grid and nutrition cycle
The trays are rotating so each plant gets enough sunlight. Still the orientation of the rows of the vertical gardens is important. They are north-south orientated for an optimum catching of the light. The excreta of the fish in the water of the tanks are a nutrition for the plants. The plants convert these substances into nutrition for the fishes, in this way they both provide each other with nutritions they need, creating an internal nutrition cycle.
Section
In this section of the greenhouse you see how the gardens are connected to the fish tanks for the nutrition cycle.
Interior of the greenhouse
Perspective view
