Urban food production is not a new concept. We’ve seen countless
designs here on eVolo for vertical farms, urban ecosystems, and
arcologies, but French firm Zundel and Cristea
has taken the urban farm concept in an entirely different direction.
Instead of proposing a monumental project like a vertical farm, they put
together a design for smaller urban farm centers planted throughout a
city.
The centers are designed to grow food, process it, and some to even
serve it in on site restaurants. On the inside bowls of the spiraling
structures is the green space where various types of food and greenery
is grown. Visitors and urban farmers would go out to the spirals to
harvest and enjoy the green space. Food would then be taken into the
superstructure and processed where it could be served or packaged and
brought to market.
The small scale of each of the double spiral structures allow for
Zundel and Cristea’s urban farms to be regional centers for the
districts they individually serve, a sort of park and bazaar in one.
Placing them in urban landscapes also reduces the green house emissions
that would normally be needed to transport produce from rural farms to
city centers. Centers would be topped with wind turbines as well, to
create an energy sustainable landmark that is economically, socially,
and agriculturally productive.
Zundel and Cristea designed their urban farms as a part of what they
see as a shifting focus of city planning and architectural design from
industrial functionality to the environmentally conscious and
ecological. Their straightforward and refined design makes urban farming
on a large scale a feasible element in the city of the future.
Источник: http://www.evolo.us/architecture/zundel-and-cristeas-urban-farms/ | 
