Vertical Farms + Robotic Arms

Bostonian architecture firm Höweler + Yoon took a look at some of the stalled construction projects around town and decided to not only gussy them up, but make them useful as well. The solution? Eco-Pods, or algae garden capsules attached to the skeletal, halted construction projects.

Designed in cooperation with LA's Squared Design Lab, the capsule would be rotated and repositioned by robotic arms to maximize efficiency, and the end product would be biofuel. It's all a bit sci-fi, but — hey — it'd be sweet if it ever came to see the light of day.

As a female and individual, normally i would be all for these impractical useless psychotic designs. Although this time, I'm not too sure, first, simply use fuel to power these "handy arms" would itself cause polllution. Second, such large condensed space packed with plants, would attract lots of insects. In my mind machinery and plants+water+soil+insects, doesn't mix well, it could cause alot of accidents with the connection of the building ie mould growing on surfaces and the buildings might not fix together as well causing it to collapse... But the whole idea of bringing green into the city is overall good, but the idea of growing plants like buildings, creative but not so practical, it would be like Hundertwassers building . But i like Hundertwassers idea about man living underneath green more... and it is also more simple than this.

Aesthetically interesting though.