Vertical Farm and Hydroponics Tower

What is placed

A forty by thirty two metre grow room laid end to end: in through the outer and inner airlock doors, past boot wash hygiene stations, gowning benches and locker runs, then straight down the main aisle of the grow hall.

Six blocks of growing run north to south either side of five walking aisles. The two blocks flanking the main aisle are three tier racks, every tier planted, cycling through lettuce, pak choi and propagation plugs, capped at both ends by rack end frames and lit by suspended LED bars down each aisle. Nutrient film channel runs fill the west blocks, deep water culture trays the east, with the aeroponic mist chamber at the far east corner and strawberry towers at the west end. The rack shuttle sits on its floor rail down the east aisle; the scissor lift stands raised beside a rack two aisles west.

East of the entrance is goods in and propagation: germination chambers, transplanting benches carrying rockwool plug trays, propagation trays under their domes, herb trays and grow trays, with crate stacks, tote stacks and trolleys behind.

North of the hall, a harvest line of conveyor stub benches and transplanting benches with grow trays at all three crop stages, then the wash and spin station, packing benches, the pallet and stretch wrapper, crate and tote stacks, a pallet truck and the cold store door in the north wall. The plant room fills the north west corner: dosing skid, reservoir, pumps and filters, UV steriliser, reverse osmosis rack, dehumidifiers, air handling unit and carbon dioxide rack. A control corner holds the cabinets, a tablet stand and sensor poles. Service pipework follows the west and north walls and supply duct runs overhead between the bays, so the whole room reads as one installation. A mezzanine walkway and its stair run along the east wall as scenery: the visitor stays at floor level throughout.

The racks stop at three tiers on purpose. A fourth would sit above walking eye height and never be seen. The hall is open topped for the same reason: a visitor walks at floor level and a roof over it would only be a lid nobody sees.

What moves

Twenty seven of the placed models carry clips, and each plays as you walk up to it. The rack shuttle traverses its rail and opens its lid. The scissor lift raises. Both airlock door pairs and the cold store door swing. Control cabinet doors, locker doors, the germination chamber, the aeroponic mist chamber, the reservoir hatch, the dehumidifier and the air handling unit open, and rack bays slide their trays out. Pallet truck, trolley and scissor lift wheels roll, the pallet truck tilts, pump, dosing and reverse osmosis rotors spin, fan blades spin, valve handwheels turn, the harvest bench roller bed spins and the wash and spin station spins its basket.

What does not move, and why

Water, nutrient solution and aeroponic mist are static geometry, as are hoses, flexible pipework and cabling: a fluid or a flexible run needs a shader or a joint per element, and none of that is reachable with one rigid node transform. Screens and displays are static for the same reason, and every screen, fascia, crate stencil and tote in the pack is blank. The LED bars are emissive looking geometry, not lights: the pack embeds no lights. The plants are static geometry too, so there is no growth animation and no skinning anywhere. There are no people in the scene.

Size

769 placements of 60 distinct models, about 3.8 MB of GLB across 60 files, fetched once each and cloned.

Every piece here is a published model from the pack, placed by hand. Walk with the keys or touch, and approach a piece to see it move if it has animation. Colliders, navigation and gameplay are yours to add.