Urban Farming

This rendering by Mithun architects imagines a vertical farm in downtown Seattle includes apartments, space for growing vegetables and grains, greenhouses, rooftop gardens and a chicken farm.

Model of Self-Sufficiency
Seattle-based architecture firm Mithun designed this vertical farm so that it would not require any water from municipalities and would also use photovoltaic cells to produce nearly 100% of the building's electricity.

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