Farmscrapers’ Target China’s Pollution and Population Problems

May 10, 2013- Vincent Callebaut Architects,has designed a series of six “farmscrapers,” which they hope will go up in Shenzhen, China. The 6 towers feature eco-friendly wind turbines, water recycling and solar cells – all aimed at creating a renewable energy resource and slashing carbon-dioxide emissions. 

The futuristic residential and business towers would help combat China’s soaring population and pollution problems with a green solution. Each farmscraper would be 1,300 feet tall and have 111 floors.

Each level of a tower would house a suspended garden on its exterior. Water generated by the urban, vertical farms would be recycled by special systems within the buildings.

Critics remain doubtful over whether the ambitious plan is actually possible. But the company said the project, dubbed Asian Cairns, is only a sign of what's to come.

"It is a prototype to build a green, dense, smart city connected by technology and eco-designed from biotechnologies," Vincent Callebaut Architects explained. "Its design is especially important during a time of hyper growth and accelerated urbanism."

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