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]
Butter in the Mail: Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
AGER-AGRI
Your Town Tomorrow
HydroLoops: Mechanization and the Command Prompt
The Productive Surface
Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes
What We Are Is What We Eat
The Building That Farms…
Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes [EELLs]
Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism
Cloud Skippers
Microcosmic Aquaculture
Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future
The Catalog: From Ploughs to Clouds
Post-Agricultural Speculations
Performative Landscapes
Vertical Farming in Las Vegas? Beyond Pragmatism, Toward Desire
Food Matrix
Seasoned Pasture: A Demonstration Range and Public Park
Chia Mesa
Recycling Takes Command
Farm Logic
Learning from Salinas (Hopefully)
BLDG 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance
Reforestation of Greenwood Farm: An Emergent Landscape and Intervention
Globalgaelisation
Living Tower: A Vertical Horse Stable for Luxor
Landgrab City
Migrational Fields: Farming and the Chinese Urban Village
Beyond Disney
Factory-Farmed Architecture: You Are How You Eat
Precipitating a Productive Countryside: A Renewed Company Town Model
Line 13 – Superlinearity
Hydrating Luanda
Project::Farm
Fructus Vegetabilis: Growing Profit in the War on Error
Harvesting Space
On Farming
45°50’8”N 119°41’57”W: Hybrid-Poplar Farm
Aquaculture Seascape Park
Farming [PARK]: Rail, Roadways, and Urban Form Today