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‘Mashambas’ Tower could revolutionise global farming

This concept for vertical farming is the latest of its kind to emerge out of the eVolo skyscraper competition. Mashambas - which roughly translates from Swahili as ‘an area of cultivated land for growing crops’ - recently won the top prize, and could well provide a more achievable solution than some of the futuristic megastructures the competition has thrown up in the past. 

With a modular design, it has been specifically intended to be quick to assemble and easy to take apart and move to other locations with little fuss. It also has the capacity to grow dependant on its context; with the pieces easily able to ‘stack’ together. The structure would also feature drone landing platforms to transport crops to hard-to-reach areas and function as an educational centre... with central spaces in the columns devoted to training locals in agriculture. 

Not only could the tower help deprived areas, it could also serve a more global need too; with global population set to reach 9 billion by 2050, food shortages could be tackled by structures like this. 

Certainly a step in the right direction!

Mashambas Un projet de ferme gratte-ciel pour réduire la pauvreté en Afrique #Mashambas

Mashambas – Un projet de ferme gratte-ciel pour réduire la pauvreté en Afrique Deux designers polonais ont imaginé Mashambas, un projet de gratte-ciel centré autour de l’agriculture et destiné aux régions rurales d’Afrique subsaharienne. Pawel Lipiński et Mateusz Frankowski sont deux jeunes designers originaires de Pologne. Avec leur projet de gratte-ciel baptisé Mashambas, ils viennent de…