Fog Harvesting Hydroponic Farm
This is an undergraduate thesis project that investigates the notion of fog collection and urban agriculture in the city of San Francisco. The building is comprised of a beach promenade at Ocean Beach, which serves to contain a volume of fog-condensing polypropylene meshes to be filtered and used as irrigation for a hydroponic farm. The plants are farmed in a vertical hydroponic system which uses a stacked modular unit for irrigation. Paracloud was used to generate both the fog collection meshes, as well as the hydroponic vertical wall. The curvature of both surfaces allowed for parametric design, which created variation within the components based on solar orientation and view angles.
Thesis Advisor: Doris Sung
Acknowledgements: T.Banh, R.Bourgeois, J.Chang, T.Chen, N.Murao, K.Nguyen, J.Sarafian, E.Shieh
Boardwalk Promenade
Farmers Market Atrium
Fog Harvesters
Section Perspective
Ground Floor Plan
Migrant Farmer Housing Modules
Component Diagram
Hydroponic System Detail
