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Sowing the Seeds

Abrahams, Tim

Architectural Record, 2022-05, Vol.210 (5), p.86

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Título:
Sowing the Seeds
Autor: Abrahams, Tim
Assuntos: Aluminum ; Farming ; Food ; Gardens & gardening ; Greenhouses ; Intensive farming ; Landscape architecture ; Planting ; Seeds ; Suburban areas
É parte de: Architectural Record, 2022-05, Vol.210 (5), p.86
Descrição: Abrahams discusses how an experimental greenhouse complex in Belgium ups the ante for the humble agricultural typology. The European approach to the swiftly evolving phenomenon of rooftop farming is typified by Agrotopia, a 2.5-acre expanse of aluminum-framed greenhouses built on top of a pre-existing L-shaped industrial warehouse in the Belgian town of Roeselare. Whereas rooftop food production in the US often aims to make a dense urbanism more verdant, rooftop farming in Europe has emerged alongside existing agricultural production and is being built in landscapes at the border of suburb and country already inhabited by intensive farming and light industry. Agrotopia is home to Inagro, a horticultural-research entity funded by the regional government and the European Union, which chose to locate its experimental greenhouses in Roeselare because the city is home to key food industries and is the distribution hub for nearby food production.
Editor: New York: BNP Media
Idioma: Inglês

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