Agrihood

Project Background

Year

2024

Concept

Integrating food production with net zero affordable housing reduces transportation emissions, supports healthy living, promotes local economies, and fosters community resilience.

Ecological Planning + Design Global Dream Lab

Solar 3D printed community centered around integrating food production with resilient building systems and technologies

The Agrihood concept — Zero Energy Building + Beyond (ZEB+B) — supports a new modern diet, is built using solar 3D printing technology, withstands extreme weather conditions, and utilizes pre-manufactured parts.

This system features gap/keystone industries such as duckweed as a high-protein food source, quonset roof kits, a solar printing gantry which doubles as a pedestrian grid, and 3D printed high mass hollow walls using MgO fast set cement.

Within the quonset roof’s channels, radiative sky cooling film alternates with thin-film photovoltaic membrane, forming a mutually beneficial heat exchange.

Zero Energy

building is successful if the new technologies also support livability, affordability, and resilience

Duckweed

is a low-impact food substitute for meat, dairy and grains at a fraction of the present global footprint

Solar 3D-Printed

agrihood community incorporates high mass hollow walls, electricity generating quonset hut roof, re-purposed printer gantry, and duckweed protein source