Self-sufficient towers
Sustainability has lots of applications and one of them is architecture. The architecture studio Vincent Callebaut together with the Indian agroecological expert Amlankusum, have developed a sustainable urbanism plan to be implemented in New Delhi, India.
The plan includes 6 interconnected garden towers which will host residential spaces, commerce and offices with cultivable areas. It will also have solar panels, hydroponic balconies, and glass greenhouses on the roof. The 36 floor building structure will be constructed with local wood instead of using concrete and steel so that the environmental impact will be reduced by avoiding the emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere more than 1 tone per cubic meter.
But the innovation doesn’t finish there. Architects have foreseen a system to adapt building’s climate by a vertical air circulation based on termite nests. Throughout this method the air temperature remains stable at 18ºC the whole year without energy consumption.
For more information, visit Vincent Callebaut.org.
