http://www.forwardthinkingarchitecture.com/F-R-A-RESEARCH F.R.A (Floating Responsive Agriculture) TYPE: Territorial Vertical Agriculture strategies LOCATION: Singapore (potential testing spot) STATUS: Research -Third Award winner of Re-thinking the Future RTF Awards 2014, New Delhi , India Award Category: Urban Design-Smart City Award -2nd Prize, 5th Advanced Architecture Contest "Self Sufficient Habitat"- IaaC-HP, Barcelona

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1. interesting. a far better solution would be to grow seaweed instead (which is about as efficient as you can get for producing calories). Then use it as a food additive to drastically limit the amount of food that needs to be harvested or raised on traditional farms.
2. Tell you what, when you get someone that will invest in a skyscraper that will grow a much more cost intensive form of farming with a much higher potential to fail, instead of a tech or engineering office building that will make infinitely (because this plan will never break even) more money, let me know. When every singular person, not family, person, can have an apartment bigger than the one my wife and I live in and that area is still smaller than the state of Texas, overpopulation is not an issue, we have plenty of room to grow things. These things will need to be irrigated, and that is not cheap. They will most likely have to be manually pollinated (or at least assisted) and constantly monitored for high winds, because a field of corn doesn't fall over in a wind because of the rest of the corn, a row of corn will fall over, and winds are generally higher up in the air.
   
   Simply put, there is no way that this can ever break even under the current system. Biotechnically engineered grains are allowing us to grow corn in places around the world that we never dreamed of before. You can say what you want about hormones and genetic engineering, but the health issues from that are a whole lot better than starvation.
   
   The American Government is paying farmers not to farm to keep prices where they are. We have huge plots of land that have grown up into woods that we can easily use should the need ever arise. Until the world population hits about a quintillion there is no way the cost will ever justify the means. This is the kind of solution we get from the "Sustainable" crowd. Nothing practical.
3. This will never work, lol. It's completely impractical and its pretty apparent how unprofessional this video is. "analisys" 
4. COOLLLLL!!!!!!!!! Bananas LOL!!!
5. Someone stole this idea from Minecraft...
6. Of course some people say it would be vulnerable in a strong wind, but for goodness sake who's to say there's GOING to be a strong wind?
   Vertical farms. Good science at work.
7. jacque fresco/venus project did this in 1970
8. what a beautiful terrorist target 
9. Talk about pies in the sky.  Better to pay for poor farmers to bring food to you than paying a bunch of yuppies building stair ways to heaven.
10. how do you harvest the ones on top? or how do you water it?
11. storm is coming ? 
12. Interesting idea but what has yet to be brought up is how this is supposed to hold up to the gale force winds it would no doubt encounter in a tropical setting. You'd need a hell of a lot of counter weight when the moment about the base is that large.
13. whats the song?
14. well the food will absorb all the cities air pollution then too wont it. unless they're going to have them in the city in lab type enclosed environments with filtered air etc... then the cost will be higher for consumers as well.
15. Some Minecraft inspirated stuff right here
16. Wondering how much automated farms in Minecraft have influenced this concept.
17. Great idea, but I'm curious as to how they plan on having a sustainable influx of fertile soil
18. It is far past time that we as the human race start thinking up instead of out.  Even in areas with plenty of land to grow, why get 2 acres of growth out of 2 acres of land when you can build a skyscraper greenhouse with 20 floors and get 35 acres of growing area out of 2 acres of land.  This has been a long term goal of mine for quite some time.
19. The future!!! Of farming...
20. What does the title stand for?