Korea: Rooftop greenhouse in downtown Seoul operated as a “living lab”
The purpose of realizing various social values through urban agriculture
HortiDaily
Nov 16m 2023
Excerpt:
A technology for saving the energy used by buildings and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by constructing a building-integrated rooftop greenhouse in the city center has been developed. It has actually been demonstrated in a building for the first time in the country. The demonstration of the rooftop greenhouse is expected to contribute not only to the realization of carbon neutrality but also to the resolution of food shortage problems in the future by materializing sustainable urban agriculture.
The research team led by Principal Researcher Sang-min Lee of the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (President Sang-jin Park, hereinafter referred to as KIMM), an institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, developed an “active energy interchange technology*” and succeeded in demonstrating a rooftop greenhouse covering an area of 200 square meters on the rooftop of a building located in Seongsu-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul. It is the first time for a Korean research team to construct a building-integrated rooftop greenhouse in a commercial building.
