New York: Dragonfly, United States

[LindbergMTL]

Dragonfly concept aims for ecological self-sufficiency in New York

 

 

 

The latest concept design from Vincent Callebaut Architects – the Dragonfly – has been designed with the intention of easing the ever-increasing need for ecological and environmental self-sufficiency in the urban cityscape. The proposed development, designed around the Southern bank of Roosevelt Island in New York, follows a vertical farm design which, it is hoped, would cultivate food, agriculture, farming and renewable energy in an urban setting.

 

The unique 128 floor, 700m concept design is spread over two oblong towers and suggests building a prototype of an urban farm in which a mixed programme of housing, offices, laboratories and farming spaces are vertically laid out over several floors and cultivated by its inhabitants. The architecture of the design proposes reinventing the vertical building, so associated with the New York skyline of the 19th and 20th centuries, both structurally and functionally as well as ecologically.

 

 

The functional organisation of the design is arranged around two 600m towers, symmetrically arranged around a huge climactic greenhouse that links them, and constructed of glass and steel. This greenhouse, which defines the shape of the design, supports the load of the building and is directly inspired by the structural exoskeleton of dragonfly wings. Two inhabited rings buttress around the ‘wings,’ and along the exterior of these are solar panels, which will provide up to half the buildings electricity, with the rest being supplied by three wind machines along the vertical axes of the building.

 

While most would argue that the unconventional design of Dragonfly would be more suited to Dubailand than New York, the conceptual design tackles the contemporary dilemma of food production and agriculture in a city sorely lacking in the horizontal space required to do so, as well as attempting to achieve this in an ecologically sound and renewable way by merging production and consumption in the heart of the city.

 

John Edwards

Reporter

 

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=11599

[jesseps]

yah noooooooooo someone smoking something and its for sure not the right shit.

[Loc']

Tiens, des palmiers à NY...

 

 

C'est horrible.

[Habsfan]

WTF is that????

[LindbergMTL]

C'est peut-être bizarre pour nous, mais pour les jeunes qui montent derrière nous , ce concept représente la nouvelle économie verte et durable, innovatrice et audacieuse, la germination d'un nouveau monde, le symbole d'un tournant dans la production de biens et de services.

 

Comme on l'entend dire de plus en plus souvent et fort, on ne peut plus continuer comme on fait présentement. Voilà donc ce que ça donne.

[Habsfan]

C'est affreux, c'est atroce et j'espère ne jamais voir une telle chose détruire le skyline de NYC!

[JFrosty]

Je trouve pas ça si laid?

[cjb]

C'est peut-être bizarre pour nous, mais pour les jeunes qui montent derrière nous , ce concept représente la nouvelle économie verte et durable, innovatrice et audacieuse, la germination d'un nouveau monde, le symbole d'un tournant dans la production de biens et de services.

 

Comme on l'entend dire de plus en plus souvent et fort, on ne peut plus continuer comme on fait présentement. Voilà donc ce que ça donne.

 

Au contraire, moi je trouve que ça fait très 1993..

 

 

[OursNoir]

Moi aussi j'ai pensé aux Arcologies de SimCity en voyant cette chose là!

[LindbergMTL]

Ça fait même Jules Verne, en fait!