{"id":109034,"date":"2020-06-23T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T23:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/solar-powered-poultry-farm-floated-for-rotterdam-harbor"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T23:25:48","slug":"solar-powered-poultry-farm-floated-for-rotterdam-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/solar-powered-poultry-farm-floated-for-rotterdam-harbor","title":{"rendered":"Solar-powered poultry farm floated for Rotterdam harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-powered-poultry-farm-floated-for-rotterdam-harbor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve reported on several eye-catching floating architecture projects lately, including a \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/architecture\/copenhagen-islands-marshall-blecher-fokstrot\/\">parkipelago<\/a>\u201d and a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/architecture\/powerhouse-company-floating-office-rotterdam\/\">greenery-covered office<\/a>. This solar-powered urban poultry farm is the most off-the-wall idea of the bunch though and, assuming it goes ahead as planned, will host roughly 7,000 egg-laying hens, as well as an area for growing food, in a harbor in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The building is officially named Floating Farm Poultry and was designed by Goldsmith for a company named Floating Farm Holding BV.<\/p>\n<p>It will be based on a floating platform with three pontoons and will measure 3,500 sq m (roughly 37,670 sq ft), spread over three floors. Its interior layout will consist of a lower level used for farming vegetables, herbs and cresses under LED lighting, while upstairs will be a production factory floor for processing and packaging. The uppermost level is conceived as the poultry area and will contain the egg-laying hens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve reported on several eye-catching floating architecture projects lately, including a \u201cparkipelago\u201d and a greenery-covered office. This solar-powered urban poultry farm is the most off-the-wall idea of the bunch though and, assuming it goes ahead as planned, will host roughly 7,000 egg-laying hens, as well as an area for growing food, in a harbor in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}