Harvest Green Project 02 is another award winning design from Vancouver based Romses Architects, challenging the status quo of how energy and food is produced, delivered and sustained in cities.
“Inspired by the traditional and vibrant mixed-use ‘Hutong’ laneway houses found throughout much of China, the Harvest Green Project 02 seeks to transform Vancouver’s hidden laneways into synergistic green streets creating a socially vibrant new public realm,” explains Romses Architects of the design.
The Harvest Green Project proposes to overlay a green energy and food web across residential neighborhoods and laneways in the city. The innovative design will transform the city’s laneways into green energy and food conduits, or green streets, where energy and food is harvested via proposed micro laneways and live/work homes.
Their Harvest Green Project 02 design includes mobile nomadic prefab laneway homes – ModPods - to provide adaptable affordable housing, and to act as part of the sustainable energy and urban farming infrastructure. The laneway homes will harvest renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, with the excess energy sold back to energy companies to feed into the rest of the city’s energy system.
Private and communal rainwater cisterns will provide irrigation for edible green roofs, community and private edible gardens, fruit bearing vegetation, and vertical gardens will fill the facades, laneways, yards and spaces between buildings.
“The goal is for homeowners to re-think the obsession with the suburban lawn, in favor of creating edible-estates,” explains the architect.
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