Only Dubai, a city that has practically sprung up overnight with some of the world’s most jaw-droppingly creative architecture, would construct an ecosystem reaching into the clouds.

Since the Metropolis has a severe lack of natural resources, the country hired Italian architects from Studiomobile to conceive a Seawater Vertical Farm that draws exclusively upon natural resources to create a sustainable source of food, for a cleaner, greener, and more self-efficient Dubai.

Envisioned as a spire that branches off into soaring sky-gardens, the design uses seawater to create an ecosystem conducive to growing crops amid the clouds.

Powered exclusively by saltwater, the new structure would allow Dubai to significantly cut down on food imports, reducing the region’s oil dependency and greenhouse gas emissions by decrease their reliance on transportation.

Based upon the design of Seawater Greenhouses in Oman and the Gran Canarias, Studiomobile’s ‘Seawater Vertical Farm’ utilizes seawater to cool and humidify the air that ventilates multiple greenhouses, while sunlight distills the saltwater into fresh water to provide life for thousands of plants.

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