Charming, climate-resistant design
Built in Brooklyn, New York in 2016 by architect Mitchell Joachim, this structure is actually a farm! And it is designed to produce food for humans!
Common livestock such as cows, pigs and chickens require huge amounts of water, land, fertilizer and hormones, and produce a lot of greenhouse gases. On the other hand, insects like crickets are a much more environmentally friendly solution, and they can meet our protein needs. “We will be able to grow protein using less than 2% of the land needed for the same amount of cow protein,” says Joachim. Some of his other projects include living tree branch houses, floating buses that lift passengers with tentacles, and more.
What will the world's megacities look like in the future? Here's a vivid vision of 22nd century Lagos from Nigerian Brooklyn artist Olalekan Jeefoss. Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, with a population of 21 million, is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas on the planet. Jeyifous has created his sci-fi renders by overlaying detailed drawings on photographs of modern life in Lagos. Its purpose is to spark talk about urban planning and inequality by raising questions such as: Who is currently deciding how our cities will develop? What if residents of low-income communities could intervene? The result may look like his figurative images. The artist hopes this will make people think less of these communities as these poor slums and more of the people who live there.
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