GEOtube is a proposal for a new 170 meter tall tower for the city of Dubai. With an open structure and an exposed membrane skin, the vertical planes of the GEOtube tower are continually misted with local salt water via an internal vascular water system.
The result is a continual uniform growth of salt crystal deposits upon its vertically expansive surfaces, providing a highly identifiable architectural icon for the city, a specialized habitat for wildlife that thrives is this specialized environment, and an accessible skin for the harvesting of salt.
Thom Faulders is a San Francisco- based architect and professor at the California College of the Arts.
On Farming - Contents
BRACKET [on farming]
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes [EELLs]
The Productive Surface
Recycling Takes Command
BLDG 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance
The Catalog: From Ploughs to Clouds
Line 13 – Superlinearity
Living Tower: A Vertical Horse Stable for Luxor
Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Fructus Vegetabilis: Growing Profit in the War on Error
Migrational Fields: Farming and the Chinese Urban Village
Project::Farm
Aquaculture Seascape Park
Landgrab City
Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes
Food Matrix
On Farming
Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism
Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes
Seasoned Pasture: A Demonstration Range and Public Park
Microcosmic Aquaculture
AGER-AGRI
Butter in the Mail: Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
Reforestation of Greenwood Farm: An Emergent Landscape and Intervention
Hydrating Luanda
Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future
Performative Landscapes
Factory-Farmed Architecture: You Are How You Eat
Globalgaelisation
45°50’8”N 119°41’57”W: Hybrid-Poplar Farm
The Building That Farms…
What We Are Is What We Eat
Your Town Tomorrow
Precipitating a Productive Countryside: A Renewed Company Town Model
Learning from Salinas (Hopefully)
Farm Logic
Farming [PARK]: Rail, Roadways, and Urban Form Today
Vertical Farming in Las Vegas? Beyond Pragmatism, Toward Desire
Harvesting Space
HydroLoops: Mechanization and the Command Prompt
Cloud Skippers
Post-Agricultural Speculations
Beyond Disney
Chia Mesa