A vertical farm makes use of buildings to grow vegetables. The plants are transported to the windows by a lift system in order to get enough daylight.
Vertical farms are greenhouses - only the cultivated areas are not laid out next, but rather stacked up on top of each other. A Graz-Viennese concept combines structure with urban architecture. Urban farming, in other words carrying out agricultural projects in urban surroundings has been a thing for years. Vertical farming goes one step further - a step upward, to be precise. Use is made of building façades to grow fruit and vegetables and to yield a proper return, on the one hand, and to create added benefits for the building in terms of energy technology, on the other. Many existing projects involving vertical cultivation resemble classic greenhouses - only laid out vertically, not horizontally. In Graz and at the Vertical Farm Institute in Vienna, the aspiration is to integrate cultivated areas into the architecture of buildings, thus using synergies and saving energy.
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