Adaptive Design of Green Facades and Vertical Farm: Examples of Technological Integration of Microalgae for Energy Production in Resilient Architecture

In recent years there has been a continuous search to succeed in bringing nature into the cities, the productivity of the countryside in the anthropized environment. After the first experiments with vertical, productive or just decorative greenery, we came to look for increasingly integrated solutions to produce food and energy. About thirty years ago NASA9 began to look for a way to break down carbon dioxide and produce oxygen in a closed environment, but also a way to recycle water and organic fluids. Today in Spain, Israel, Italy, the United States there are many producers of microalgae, which mainly use two cultivation systems: open ponds or photobioreactor. The new frontier is integrating the micro-algae production in architecture, creating green building, not only to reduce carbon dioxide, but also producing biomass.