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Spiraling Skyscraper Farms For a Future Manhattan

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the biomorphic-structures-are-made-of-people dept.

Mike writes "One of three finalists in this year's Evolo Skyscraper Competition, Eric Vergne's Dystopian Farm project envisions a future New York City interspersed with elegantly spiraling skyscraper farms. The biomorphic structures harness cutting-edge technology to provide the city with its own self-sustaining food source while dynamically altering the fabric of city life."

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  1. Gives a whole new meaning... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    to 'eat me out of house and home!'

  2. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality by jandrese · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot to mention that it's "not even a mother could love it" ugly.

    The design is apparently "gigantic opened up hornets nest", and it looks like finding a level surface to put a chair on might be difficult.

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  3. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality by Zerth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Give him a small break, the plans do indicate using aeroponics.

    So instead of tons of dirt & water, the building only needs a 90% humidity level.

    Just imagine the mold on your servers.

  4. silithid by OglinTatas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like something the silithid might build. I'm thinking the cenarion circle is going to ask me to go there and hack up 15 searchers, 20 tunnelers, and return with 5 egg sacks for study.

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    1. Re:silithid by Archimonde · · Score: 2, Funny

      And then the same treehugger will send you back to the same place to kill swarmers until they drop 5 legs which will take an average of 40 kills (even though every swarmer has at least 6 legs). And of course as swarmers are tightly packed with the mobs you mention you'll have to kill them too.

      When you finally get back, you will be asked to rescue some retarded night elf chick or some moronic dwarf in the lair of the biggest hive killing all those mobs again. The reward is an item of very small to no value.

      Then you realize that there is another "!" above some other treehugers head and the cow^H tauren gives a quest to follow the previous mentioned NE chick or the same dwarf which means going there killing tens of those same mobs, following and guarding the npc, and probably dying in the process, by the time all the mobs respawn.

      After you finally get back to the npc, and start the escort quest again you get ambushed by some 12 year old child playing a rogue and you die because you were playing a human warlock in wow 1.3

      God I miss those days.

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  5. kids today by whistlingtony · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone thinks "kids today" are bad... You know what? they're not. They're just as dumb as their parents were at that age. I know I did plenty of stupid stuff when I was young....

    Plenty of kids today are bright and creative, and now have outlets for that creativity thanks to our wonderful information age.

    So go stick in your craw Gramps.

    -T

  6. Bees by snspdaarf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe we are supposed to wait for the bees to fill the thing with honey, then eat the building.

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  7. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 2, Funny

    > You forgot to mention that it's "not even a Mother Earth could love it" ugly.

    Fixed it for you.

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  8. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality by random+coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Malthus! Is that you? What makes you think you'll be right this time?

  9. Ah architecture school.. by poity · · Score: 3, Funny

    the last resort of art school and engineering school dropouts.

     

    /still in architecture school.. :o

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  10. Silly person. by ccady · · Score: 2, Funny

    Silly person. Doesn't he realize that NYC already is growing food? Hasn't he seen Soylent Green? Doesn't he watch Monty Python?

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  11. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality by NewbieProgrammerMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tons of soil weigh alot? By my calculations it should only weigh a few tons..

    Maybe it's dark matter soil--then each ton would weigh over 10000 tons.

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  12. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    unless someone finds a way to regulate the human birth rate.

    That's easy, just give everyone a Slashdot account.

  13. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality by MaxwellEdison · · Score: 2, Funny

    All that social unrest and starvation once you nerve staple 2/3rds of the population and have them harvest that pink fungus everywhere. -We must dissent

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  14. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality by Arancaytar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Exactly. "Elegant"?

    I can't imagine by what standards. It looks like some Lovecraftian worm creature emerging from the depth in a horror movie. :P