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Floating Farms | An upcoming Revolution in the agricultural Industry?

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 The Forward-thinking architecture company in Barcelona; with
architect Javier Ponce at its helm, think they have a solution to the one
of the impending food crisis facing the world.

The company’s Smart Floating Farms (SFF) concept is a sustainable,

solar-powered standing farm that floats on cruisers, making it possible
to grow food off a coast, in the open sea or just about any large water
body. The architects estimate that SFF can produce a calculated 8,152
tons of vegetables and 1,703 tons of fish annually

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 Formulation and Concept of the design

The architecture shows a 24 meter tall, three-level structure with solar

panels at the roof to provide energy. The intermediate level grows a
variety of vegetation over an area of 51,000 square meters, using
nutrients in the liquid instead of the use of soil in the conventional
agricultural farming.

These nutrients and plant substances would drop into the bottom level
to feed fish, which are farmed in a surrounded space, to cultivate fish
farming.

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 Split-up of the Architecture

Productive agriculture answers differently to situations based on the

parameters of location, resource availability, climatic changes etc. It is
important that the production value remains constant, even when the
above-stated factors differ by a considerable margin.

The farm, comprising of three levels, thus can be stacked or varied in

different ways to suit the needs of the respective locations, without
hindering the amount of food production.

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 Future: An impossible approach or the next big Revolution?

Questions arise whether these supportable farms can actually make a dent in
the impending food crisis, since they are likely to incur huge start-up and
operating costs. Other factors, such as the adaptability, climatic environment,
production costs and practical implementations will act as barriers might
oppose the business model.

Javier D. Ponce, chief executive of the SFF project, says, “At this moment,
there’s no need to clarify non-conclusive figures. Many factors of the project
will depend on the location, market tendencies, the type of products, etc.”

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