Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?

D’Ostuni, Michele; Zaffi, Leonardo; Appolloni, Elisa; Orsini, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2022.103061

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“…In dense urban areas where vacant land suitable for cultivation is limited, utilizing innovative high-tech technologies that require minimum cultivation space offers tremendous opportunities for space-confined cultivation [25]. Situating farming systems such as "high-tech" greenhouses in line with soilless cultivation systems on and in buildings can be considered building-integrated agriculture (BIA) [30,35,175].…”

Section: "High-tech" Rooftop Greenhousesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Urban agriculture can be regarded as a remedy to possible future challenges that the global food system will face [8,[22][23][24][25][26][27]. Since urban growth is unavoidable, innovative approaches such as urban agriculture can contribute to delivering fresh, local food to future urban centers [25,[28][29][30]. It might be able to reduce the future burden on the agriculture sector.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It might be able to reduce the future burden on the agriculture sector. It might be a solution to inadequate or unhealthy access to food in urban areas [25,30,31]. Open-air cultivation in line with controlled-environment agriculture can contribute to future cities' year-round vegetable and fruit production [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this vision, food, architecture, design, and cultivation are integrated to grow food in large quantity in and on city buildings [25]. By utilizing the potential available spaces in and on buildings, future urban residents may actively cultivate food [30]. This research calls for re-envisioning future urban environments as grounds for cultivating food efficiently close to where a large percentage of the globe's population live [9,25,29].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Residential Rooftop Urban Agriculture: Architectural Design Recommendations

Daneshyar

2024

Sustainability

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It is evident that, due to population growth, future urbanization and urban growth are inevitable. It is estimated that the food supply demand of future urban centers will grow, which will place an additional burden on the agriculture sector to produce more food. It is projected that securing the food supply chain for future urban centers will be a challenge. Urban agriculture can be regarded as a remedy for possible future challenges that the global food system will face. It might be able to reduce the future burden on the agriculture sector. This research proposes that urban rooftop agriculture, as a subset of urban agriculture, can produce local fresh food in dense urban environments. The principal aim of this research is to suggest a series of design recommendations for architects interested in designing residential buildings capable of rooftop food production. This research attempts to highlight the specific design recommendations and the principal limitations regarding designing residential rooftop farms. To extract the data for developing the proposed design recommendations and limitations, a review of the literature within the fields of urban agriculture, building-integrated agriculture, and horticulture was conducted. Based on the literature review results, this research suggests that the following three types of farming methods can be developed on residential rooftops: (1) open-air rooftop food production, (2) “low-tech” rooftop greenhouses, and (3) “high-tech” rooftop greenhouses. In addition, factors that can be considered principal limitations are suggested. In sum, this research proposes that current and future residential buildings can be designed so that their rooftops are utilized as farms. In this way, such buildings can contribute to delivering local fresh food to current and future metropolitan dwellers.

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Section: "High-tech" Rooftop Greenhousesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Residential Rooftop Urban Agriculture: Architectural Design Recommendations

Daneshyar

2024

Sustainability

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“…Recently, the New European Bauhaus (NEB) strategy [ 5 ], which aims to guide sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetically pleasing architectural practices, has given new insight into the use of agrobiodiversity in architectural design. This implies not only the integration of urban agriculture into buildings, like building-integrated agriculture (BIA), which encompasses practices like rooftop and vertical farming [ 6 ], but also broadens the food environments through the implementation of architectural strategies and innovative solutions for a stronger citizen connection to food and self-provisioning through multifunctional, nature-based solutions, such as urban gardens integrated with parks, edible trees and bushes, and edible green infrastructure.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Agrobiodiversity-Based Landscape Design in Urban Areas

Biasi,

Brunori

2023

Plants

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Agrobiodiversity represents a system of biological organisms that contribute to agri-food production. In a context marked by a significant loss of food-relevant species and a reduction in their genetic diversity, the adoption of strategies to preserve and enhance the diversity of genetic resources that support and complement agricultural production has become a global challenge. Many sustainable development strategies outlined in recent years directly and indirectly attribute a crucial role to agrobiodiversity in meeting food needs, ensuring food system security, promoting food justice, and enhancing well-being in modern living environments. This contribution aims to analyze the process of knowledge and awareness that has led many cities to plan their urban development by investing in the agricultural matrix and to address the design of open spaces with agricultural biodiversity.

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A dirty job: dishwasher wastewater reuse and upcycle through an ad hoc engineered microbial consortium

Alabiso,

Frasca,

Cantelmo

et al. 2023

npj Clean Water

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In the framework of regenerative circular economy and Sustainable Development Goals #6, water demand and wastewater production are a crucial environmental issue. To cope with this, a system called Zero Mile has been conceived to reuse/upcycle the dishwasher wastewater in both fertilisation of a vertical garden (for home plant production at zero mile) and the subsequent dishwasher rinsing cycle. The core of the Zero Mile system is a biofilter constituted by an ad hoc engineered microbial consortium, based on the mutualistic relationship between autotrophic and heterotrophic microbial partners, that makes the biodegradative process sustainable over time. Two semi-batch tests were performed to evaluate the capability and the efficiency of the microbial consortium to operate in conditions mimicking the Zero Mile system: consortia were challenged in two dishwasher wastewater volumes (50 and 500 mL), with a replenishing rate of 4 days for ¼ of the dishwasher wastewater volume. The results of these tests showed that the consortium thrives well in dishwasher wastewater over time and can survive with the volume and rates of replenishments. Next Generation Sequencing showed that the microbial consortium maintains a stable taxonomic composition, and chemical analyses demonstrated a very high bioremediation efficiency (total nitrogen and phosphorus removal). Aiming to contribute to the circular economy approach, the consortium ‘treated’ dishwasher wastewater was useful for plant fertilisation, as demonstrated by pigment content and quality indices (total phenols and flavonoids, soluble solids) measured in the lettuce plants grown in the Zero Mile demonstrator and watered with consortium reclaimed dishwasher wastewater.

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Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Residential Rooftop Urban Agriculture: Architectural Design Recommendations

Residential Rooftop Urban Agriculture: Architectural Design Recommendations

Agrobiodiversity-Based Landscape Design in Urban Areas

A dirty job: dishwasher wastewater reuse and upcycle through an ad hoc engineered microbial consortium

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