Ana Cecilia Toledano - Assignments 1.1-1.4

Assignment 1.4 - Aquaponics System

Assignment 3 - Ana C. Toledano

Aquaponics system showing its architectural implementation in the form of a planter wall within a building which connects its water to a fish pond to form a closed system.

Assignment 1.2 - Ana Cecilia Toledano

Aquaponic System

An Aquaponic System, which combines Aquaculture and Hydroponic Systems, has many inputs such as light, water, plants, fish, a medium such as gravel for the plants to live in, electricity, water and oxygen. It involves many smaller systems or processes such as Nitrification and Mineralization in the growth bed; as well as a digestion process for the fish in the fish tanks.

Assignment 1.1 - Ana Cecilia Toledano

Aquaponics System

An Aquaponics System consists in a combination of a Hydroponic System and a Aquaculture System. It consists of growing plants in a medium through which water rich in nutrients flows. This water then goes to a fish tank, where fish use it as a medium to live in. As the fish eat and digest the food, they produce waste, which turns into ammonia and serves as fertilizar for the plants, which use the water with ammonia that comes from the fish tank. When the water goes to the bed, the process of nitrification occurs, and nitrogen is broken down in order to be absorbed by the plants. After this process, the water is now clean enough to return to the fish tank. The invisible which I made visible was the Nitrification process and the Digestion process, which together make up a Nitrogen Cycle.