As cities are growing, we’re hardly left with much space for agriculture or other green ventures. You might have come across such a clarification from so many self-styled green thinkers. However, to prove them all wrong, Gensler and 4240 Architecture have refurbished Chicago’s abandoned Bloomingdale railroad viaduct to carve a three-mile long greenhouse and hydrogen generator out of it.
Chancing upon dual gains, the HYDROGENerator not only unfolds into a 10-acre farmland but also seeks to power city buildings. The hydrogen generator, sitting below the greenhouse, gashes water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen to create electricity. Whatever amount of hydrogen is produced at the viaduct will be distributed via depots to alternative fuel vehicles. Deservedly, the concept design won the Spark Award for International Design Excellence.
Mind you, the three-mile long rail line was abandoned in the 1980s. Now it presents itself as a guiding light for those passive theorists who are fast losing their creativity.
Via: Bustler
