ninaprettyballerina:

Rooftop Fish Farm Ups the Ante for Urban Agriculture

“The prototype Globe/Hedron ‘is a bamboo greenhouse designed to organically grow fish and vegetables on top of generic flat roofs. The design is optimized for aquaponic farming techniques: the fish’s water nourishes the plants and plants clean the water for the fish,’”.

image: Antonio Scarponi/Conceptual Devices

sylviac:

Vertical Farm + Fish Tank + Solar Power = Balanced Diet  : TreeHugger

The ‘Inka Curve is a completely integrated, closed loop system, a vertical minifarm that provides herbs, grasses, fruits or vegetables grown on a vertical ‘bio-quilt.’

The plants purify the fish water, which in turn get nutrients from the fish poop. The solar panels and wind turbines provide power and it is a neat little closed system.

hippieflavor:

Philips Biotower Puts Farming in the Kitchen (With Style) - Gizmodo

The Philips BioTower is a self-contained farm that produces hundreds of calories of various food sources a day, cascading nutrients from the top to the bottom. Its five-level design breaks down like this:

• Levels 1 and 2: Plants
• Level 3: Algae
• Level 4: Fish and Shrimp
• Level 5: Organic Waste

YouTube video

[h/t crazyfishor]

Floating Garden Aquarium

“This Floating Garden was designed by Frenchman Benjamin, scheduled for release in Spring 2010. We can just admire the complete eco-system that is going on here, a nice symbiotic relationship between plant and fish.”

The garden acts as a filter for the aquarium water, which in turns waters and fertilizes the plants.

via landscapearchitecture: boldasloves