Separating cities from the surrounding countryside, between urban and natural spaces, places of consumption, urban life, and production increasingly complicate land-use planning.
The seductive idea of a denser city, as opposed to a natural landscape, is invariably accompanied today with the emergence of large areas devoted to essential production. These zones, located outside of the city, are neither part of the city, nor the countryside; they produce increasingly disparate landscapes, destroying the structure of the land by fostering urban sprawl and polluting the atmosphere with their increasingly important grid systems.
The concept of the "Eco Tower" aims to reuniting agricultural hydroponic production, city dwelling and activities in a single, vertical system. This "vertical farm" would make it possible to better use the space already occupied by the city, while allowing for a larger autonomy by adding reliance on the production coming from agricultural planes, reducing the need for transportation between urban and extra-urban territories. The yet unusual superimposition of these programs finally makes it possible to consider new practical relationships and energy exchanges between agricultural culture, activity spaces, housing and trade, inducing a very strong energy saving.
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