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Today's Dazzling Design is a metabolic farm called the Dragonfly. It is projected to be built in New York City with 132 floors. The Dragonfly's purpose is to create fresh, local, and organic food in the middle of a city.
The entire structure would be powered by solar and wind energy. The design is based off of the wings of a dragonfly. It will cover 350,000 square meters. The Dragonfly will meet the housing and energy challenges of the future. It is also designed by Vincent Callebaut.
As you can see, the Dragonfly is pretty much a giant greenhouse that grows every kind of organic food. It will consist of 28 agricultural fields on its 132 floors. The building will be almost half a mile high. Anyway, it's going to be 700 meters high counting the antenna.
Vincent Callebaut Architects said, "The urban agriculture can feed the city without any pesticide or chemical fungicide (whose toxicity is proved on the human being : cancer, sterility…), and make it less food dependent of its backcountry or other regions of the world. Organising the distribution of fresh products in short circuits, that means linked directly with the consumer, the urban agriculture complete thus the traditional agriculture. In addition to the nutritive quality of the produced and consumed food, the urban agriculture is also a growth lever of the urban unemployment market and the local economy."
The Dragonfly will provide cleaner, more natural produce for the inhabitants of New York City. More of these types of structures will pop up in the future. Demand for food will increase and is increasing as the human society grows. It is sad that the human population is growing faster than what we can produce. That is why I think it is important for these kinds of buildings to be spread throughout the world. Major greenhouses like these are what we need to survive in the future and even better...to flourish in our growing world!
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