The Vertical Garden City: Integrating Food Production Into Residential Architecture
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This repository hosts a hybrid scientific-architectural blueprint detailing the structural and biological integration of automated vertical agriculture directly into residential infrastructure. Developed as an early-stage concept by independent researcher Luca Silviu Huci, the framework outlines a modular system of lightweight, facade-mounted hydroponic and aeroponic micro-farms engineered to bypass the structural load limitations of traditional soil-based urban farming. By synthesizing closed-loop greywater purification networks, automated nutrient delivery, and climate-adaptive vegetation placement, this paper establishes a scalable phase-gate model to transform standard apartment complexes into self-sustaining eco-arcologies capable of localized food production and urban heat island mitigation.
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2025-11-16
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2026-05-23
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