Studio 5B

Woodbury School of Architecture I Instructors: Teddy Slowik, Yasushi Ishida I Spring 2020

Harmonic Flow
Aquaponics is an integrated system that integrates fish farming and crop farming together. It is as the old saying states, “killing two birds with one stone.” It creates symbiotic relationships where these two programs come together and rely on one another. The plants require the nutrients of the wastewater of the fish and the fish require the plants to filter the wastewater. The only energy required is for the pump to move the fish water up to the plants and gravity does the rest to bring it back down to the fish tank once it’s filtered. A similar concept is applied between the housing and the plus program of the design.

The residential program interlocks with a complex infrastructure to support the aquaponics system. They create a living space for both humans and animals where both depend on each other and work hand in hand for their occupants without interrupting one another.

One can navigate through and experience both spaces at the same time. Fishponds become shared amenity spaces for residents to enjoy alongside Japanese gardens. The two components are complete opposites due to one being solid and the other liquid, but by coming together they complement each other and without their unity, functionality cannot be achieved.