Luo eco buildings 1

February 2013

Project: Eco-Farming & HomesLa Union Residential & Organic Farming Village

๏Winner of “The 2030 Challenge” organized by the City of Vancouver to address climate change plans and to guide greener and denser development, reducing carbon emissions for the future, the “Harvest Green Project” by Romses Architects will grow vegetables, herbs, fruit, fish, egg laying chickens, and a boutique goat and sheep dairy facility through the vertical farming. Featuring a green design, the structure will harvest renewable energy with photovoltaic glazing and small and large-scale wind turbines to support the solar and wind-farm infrastructure.

Harvest Green Project

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๏Harvest Green Project explores the notion of the “foregrounding” a new agri-food system in and around the strategic urban location of an arterial transit hub. By 2050, there will be globally an additional 3 billion people to feed, and traditional farming simply can’t sustain this increase in population. Therefore, incorporating urban farming prominently into the fabric of the city, and in a synergistic mixed-use development integrated with transit, is a way to re-assert the cultural and environmental importance of locally produced food to the health and sustainability of the city and its residents.

๏ If successfully implemented, projects like the The Harvest Tower, designed by Canada-based firmRomses Architects, can offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply, year round crop production, and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for large-scale traditional horizontal farming.

๏The urban design strategies for the proposal are predicated on the view that urban food and energy harvesting needs to be “foregrounded’ into strategic and highly visible locations in the city, such astransit hubs along arterials. The “Harvest Tower” will act as a landmark vertical marker for the development and surrounding neighborhood, while the commercial/office podium roots the development to the surrounding arterial streetwall context.



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๏The concept of ‘harvest’ is explored in the project through the vertical farming of vegetables, herbs, fruits, fish, egg laying chickens, and a boutique goat and sheep dairy facility. In addition, renewable energy will be harvested via green building design elements harnessing geothermal, wind and solar power. The buildings have photovoltaic glazing and incorporate small and large-scale wind turbines to turn the structure into solar and wind-farm infrastructure. In addition, vertical farming potentially adds energy back to the grid via methane generation from composting non-edible parts of plants and animals. Furthermore, a large rainwater cistern terminates the top of the ‘harvest tower’ providing on-site irrigation for the numerous indoor and outdoor crops and roof gardens.


๏ In addition to food and energy harvesting, the proposal purposefully incorporates program uses for residential, transit, a large farmers market and supermarket, office and agricultural research and educational facilities, and food related retail/hospitality. The result will be a highly dynamic synergy of uses that compliment and support each other.


FPT Smart & Green City

Smart & Green FPT City, Danang, Vietnam

๏Along the Co Co River towards the South-East and covering an area of 181 hectares, and invested by FPT Corporation with the total investment of 1 billion USD, FPT City Danang is a modern urban environment based on FPT’s strength in technology.

๏FPT City Danang develops:‣ Commercial complexes‣ Entertainment‣ Educational Institutions‣ Healthcare Clinics‣ Hotel‣ Office Towers‣ Shopping Streets‣ Sport Facilities

๏There are two main standards for residents to join FPT City Danang. The first is an Eco-friendly and sustainable city with more than 100 hectares of green space and public facilities area, in addition to the natural rivers, lakes and designed canals. They are not only designed for relaxing but also for managing floods, preventing rainwater and providing a source for irrigating future landscapes. This will create a safe, cost-effective and clean living environment - a criteria that most residents would like to choose.

๏Then there is a educational environment for their future generations, a development of excellence in technology.

FPT Smart & Green City

Energy Saver & Organic Farming

Organic Farming

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