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However, becoming
more and more competitive, these various systems of productions are
technically less and less forced to be in a horizontal production. Why
should places of manufacture of consumption or food not find their place
in the heart of city? And join by mixing housing, trade and
production/transformation that are so important for the city?
The concept of eco-tower "Tour Vivante" aim is to associate agricultural
hydroponic production, dwelling and activities in a single and vertical system.
This vertical farm would allow to make the city denser meanwhile a greater
autonomy could be gained reliance in agricultural plains, reducing the
need of transportation between urban and extra-urban territories. The
yet unusual superimposition of these programs finally makes it possible
to consider new practical and energetic relations between agricultural
culture, activity spaces, housing and trade inducing a very strong
energy saving.
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