A new high-rise building in Boston USA may be the future home of a bunch of green slime. Plans to turn the building into a vertical urban farm are moving ahead with the intended crop to be biofuel algae. Potatoes would be cooler, but hey, whatever works.
The project is going to be called Eco-Pod and confirms that we finally live in the future, where a bunch of detachable pods grow algae and act as incubators for scientists to study the production of biofuel. They also plan to include parks and gardens, because people like wandering through slime fields, especially if they're modular.
Slightly crazier than the concept itself is some of the infrastructure. Since the pods will be able to move and be reshaped, the whole structure will come complete with a robot arm, powered by the biofuel, that can rearrange the pods as necessary. We can all agree a giant, robot arm that moves around slime pods is just what Boston tourism needs.
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Thursday 15 October
By Terence Yap Singapore
Futuristically brilliant!!
Kudos!!!
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Friday 09 October
By pat
If it`s got slime all over it maybe that french guy won`t be able to climb it.
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Friday 09 October
By Badly Drawn Boston Boy
This is crap. Nobody in Boston liked this design, nor do they want it in the downtown core. This was a contest put up by the local paper to fill their pages and bring in ad revenue. The concept was brought forth by a retarded designer.
The guy should be shot.
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Saturday 10 October
By kyle michel sullivan
Why does this remind me of "The Matrix" or "Brave New World"?
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Sunday 11 October
By algae hater
.... STUIPDITY nothing on earth would want a part of this people living in will die from the smell all the hood's shops will close because no one dares to walk throw the gutter street(thats what they will call it) and he building will be infested wil all sorts of insects goodluck with your carier ender architect....
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Sunday 11 October
By Boston Architect
People, take a pill. This is by no means a real or realizable project. It's a conceptual proposal intended to provoke thought and conversation, and it's successful to those ends. It's also a beautifully executed rendering.
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Sunday 11 October
By Correction Please
Here's the original story from the Boston Globe. Ian Fortley should read a little more closely to distinguish a speculative idea from a "plans that are moving ahead".
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Saturday 24 October
By gumpo
Why do you have to grow algae on the outside of a building, why not grow it on a remote field, and if its people talking about it that they want......why not smear it with dog crap, that'll geet people talking as well !!!
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Wednesday 11 November
By nicholas
so this is basically archigram + algae. algaegram?
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Monday 14 December
By Felicity Waters
well green walls are possible - check out http://www.gardenbeet.com
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