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This chapter starts with a classification of controlled environment agriculture types: rooftop greenhouses, façade farms and plant factories that utilise sunlight or rely solely on artificial lighting sources. When designing a viable scenario for the adaptive reuse of buildings for food production, an architect must make strategic decisions in the planning, architectural and environmental dimensions. The literature review on opportunities and limitations for repurposing urban structures for food production within these thematic categories is presented and summarised. Then these findings are applied to the three building-based farming operations. The case study reveals that the opportunities and limitations in the planning domain are similar for all types of controlled environment agriculture. However, the architectural and environmental analysis indicated a different potential to place food growing installations arising from specific attributes of the building.
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Szopińska-Mularz, M. (2022). Opportunities and Limitations for the Adaptive Reuse of Urban Structures for Controlled Environment Agriculture. In: Adaptive Reuse for Urban Food Provision. Cities and Nature. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05210-1_2
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