Urban Agriculture
Design approaches to growing food in cities, from vertical farms to integrated residential agriculture systems.
Loizou Architects and Associates Replace the Facade with a Living Green Shell in Limassol
A 360-square-meter mixed-use building in a dense Cypriot neighborhood trades its outer wall for a vertical garden of climbing vines and local plants.
VTN Architects Wraps Their Own Ho Chi Minh City Studio in a Vertical Tropical Forest
A six-story office in Vietnam's Thu Duc district uses modular planters and passive cooling to achieve a 190 percent green ratio.
Atlantis 2023: Vertical Farm Towers That Turn a City's Waste Into Its Own Food Supply
Jakub Sokólski proposes a network of timber farming towers where organic waste, water and energy circulate in a closed loop inside the dense city.
Urban Farming Home by Farming Architects: A Symbiotic Model for Sustainable Urban Living in Vietnam
Urban Farming Home integrates architecture and agriculture, creating a climate-responsive urban ecosystem that enhances biodiversity, energy efficiency, and healthy living.
Urban Oasis: Turning a Former Spandau Barracks into a Dense District That Grows Its Own Green
Varlygin and Soshnikova recast Berlin's garden culture as an urban typology, weaving greenhouses and shared plots into a densified former barracks site.
The Growing Citadelle: A City Fortified by Food, Built from Farming Towers and Modular Homes
Vertical farming towers and FoodB.O.X housing units combine into an urban framework that expands and contracts with a city's seasonal food demand.
Urban Agricultural Community: A Housing Thesis That Puts the Farm Inside the Neighbourhood
Aazil Abdul Jamal's B.Arch thesis threads vertical farms, community plots and production space through housing, making food security a design parameter.
An Educational Urban Farm on a Parisian Rooftop: Learning, Cultivation, and Climate Intelligence by rerum architectes
A rooftop educational farm in Paris combining greenhouse, learning spaces, and urban agriculture to teach sustainability through architecture and cultivation.
London Vertical Sphere Farm: Stacking Agriculture Inside a City Landmark
Hashem Taher's speculative tower merges spherical vertical farms, research pods, and public markets into a single food-producing megastructure for 2050 Lon
Urban Meal Mine: Layered Food Systems Embedded in London's Urban Fabric
A shortlisted proposal fuses aquaponic farms, soil-based cultivation, and public market halls into a single multi-layered urban building.
The Garden: An Urban Meal Mine Where Architecture Grows Food and Culture
Hsiang-Yi Ho's layered proposal weaves rooftop farms, aquaponics, and open markets into a productive urban ecosystem for London.
Urban Meal Mine: Rice Terraces Reimagined as Megacity Food Infrastructure
A speculative architecture project fuses traditional rice terrace farming with urban programming to create self-sustaining food ecosystems in dense cities.
