In vertical farms, plants packed tightly under artificial light trap humidity around themselves, which encourages disease and stunts growth. Most systems blow air across a row. This graduation project with Logiqs, a Dutch vertical farming technology company, sends it up through the canopy instead, clearing moisture and feeding the crop more CO2, while the white surface of the tray reflects light back onto the leaves.
The trays connect and carry irrigation along a row, so the whole farm is modular. CFD simulations of different ventilation set-ups raised climate uniformity by 5.2 percent, and a working mini-farm with its own lighting, irrigation, nutrients, CO2 and an app to monitor plant health validated the design. It was Emile’s first more-than-human design, with the plant as its main user.
