Comments on: Beehive-Inspired Vertical Farm is a Self-Sufficient Mini Ecosystem for London

By: dssfd

dssfd — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:06:56 +0000

it’s a good idea

By: Solea Leon

Solea Leon — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:31:58 +0000

I agree with Greg Peters…so many wonderful IDEAS…so little
applied reality. The way the world is going…the great ideas of the present may never catch up with future reality…If there is a future!

By: Param

Param — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:35:32 +0000

Were any permaculturists involved in this design? How do the lower growing areas get light? What happens to all the dead and decomposing leaves and plants? How do you harvest a vertical crop with a multi-storey drop below you?

By: gregpeters

gregpeters — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:31:31 +0000

I love reading Inhabitat. I lover reading news about new, greener structures, new designs, new implementation of renewable energy. This post is amazing, but reminds me of one of my huge pet peeves about Inhabitat. I really wish the headlines (and often the text itself) would not use the present tense for things that do not yet, and might never, exist. Even the future tense would be inappropriate. Please, Inhabitat writers, embrace the subjunctive for possible future projects:

“Beehive-Inspired Vertical Farm [could be or would be or might be a] Self-Sufficient Mini Ecosystem for London”

To say that it is IS anything is frustrating because it does not exist. An alternative, if the present tense is preferred, is to speak clearly, in headlines as well as detailed content, about what the DESIGN is… not the structure.

Doubtless this seems a bit silly, but it drives me nuts, and happens on Inhabitat nearly daily.

By: tzp

tzp — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:49:13 +0000

First of all nice work allthough i would personaly prrefer a not so obvius honeycomb shape . Just some alternation never felt wrong .
The idea of these self sufficient , and autonomous buildings is growing from year to year .
But i’ve always wondered , if they just give more lifetime to the dissharmony of urban anomaly .
I mean , will these new kind of structures -beyond the obvious benefits they really do applicate – give finaly the alabi , to further grow the tumor of “was-modern” urban height-Babel ?
How come , lands as the U.S. land , with furius storms and terrorist envy , still continue to think “high and compact” .
With all the respect , sometimes even art people , should start to try to influence their clients , and the public , to focus on spreading the towns , in low height & fast transporting , instead .
Co-operate with other sciences to make a new vision for the architecture ideal purpose , and then spread it , and inevest for the new centuries needs .
Make the cores of of the old cities gardens , and self-sustained food production units , and spread around it with a completely different living model .

Thanks .
Akis Tzoulis .
tzoulis.pro@gmail.com