Yesterday
on the diary there was the fabulous story of Todmorden, a town in UK
where inhabitants grow in the green public area almost all the
vegetables that need. Today we write on another project of
re-thinking cities, food production and consumption, UFU (UrbanFarming Unit) a solution for who that don't have a adapted places and
conditions.
UFU
is a farming experiment inside shipping containers created by French
designer Damien Chivialle. Organic fish, fruits and vegetables are
produced in the street, avoiding unnecessary travels and providing
meaning to food consumption in downtown cities. All prototypes are
based on circular agriculture techniques.
Normally,
such a container is found in industry, but with UFU it is used to
test new applications in a city context. Cycle cultures are central
in the research on biological farming without land. Objectives of UFU
are to find solutions for growing food under polluted and reduced
ground.
Damien Chivialle places a greenery on top of a container in which a aquarium with fish is housed. The fish’s water and excrements feed the greenery plants, who in turn purify the water that flows back to the aquarium. The result: UFU (Urban Farming Unit), a self-regulating city farm the size of a parking spot.
2011’s UFU is one of many container projects in Paris, Lissabon and Zürich, and was recently shown at Brussels’ Kaaitheater. Now, until the end of February, UFU is exhibit in On Leuven’s Grote Markt as part of the Artefact Festival program.
The
last amazing thing is that this project is developed as Open Source.
Download the Sketchup 3D model to make your own greenhouse >>go here
More
info
website
Damien Chivialle
website UFU (Urban Farming Unit)
photo
credit courtesy Urban Farm Units
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