Connecting the City: A Vertical Farm for Baltimore's Food Desert

The thesis analyzes Baltimore City's food network, and seeks a site which has the potential for several factors: site accessibility, renewable resources, solar exposure, and connecting the community. These factors serve as the basis in which to build a hybrid prototype that is able to expose people to the process of food production through a combination of traditional outdoor farming methods and indoor hydroponics in the form of a vertical farm.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Onukwubiri, Enyinnaya Tochukwu

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Tucker, Lisa M.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Bohannon, C. L.
• Jones, Kevin William

• vertical farm
• central farm
• farmland
• connectivity
• live
• work
• grow
• community
• food desert
• impoverish neighborhoods
• Baltimore City

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:12407

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/79901