Aquaponics for Play - The name is an acronym Vu’ò’n, Ao, Chu’ông (meaning garden, pond and cage), Hanoi, Vietnam. Farming Architects

 

This is a large wooden climbing frame that uses a solar-powered aquaponics system to keep vegetables, koi crap and chickens, helping children engage and learn about self-sustaining ecosystems.

Koi carp swim in the pond adjacent to the structure, and several chicken cages sit as the rear of the space. Chickens contribute to the library's miniature ecosystem, providing eggs to eat and manure to fertilise the vegetables. 

Children will learn that the fish are not only there to watch but will discover how their waste can benefit the vegetable planters.

The design of the structure is simple yet effective, a wooden grid, designed to be adaptable is topped with solar panels. Concrete seating provides spaces to sit and read.

Various elements are slotted into the gaps of the structure's wooden beams, such as acrylic boxes, hosing lights, planters for growing vegetables, and shelving units containing children's books.

Similar concepts have also been proposed for vertical farms in Shanghai, and pop-up farm created by Space10, IKEA's innovation lab.