Atlas City Project

I just had an idea, would the aquaponics system work in each domocile? Like have a room designated to contain aquaponics to grow food for each resident?

Using the example of my interior design domocile. There's four rooms. I was thinking two bedrooms, a bathroom and another room that would be the aquaponics room.

Cancel that. I was finally able to get inside the wiki and I'm now looking at the housing structure.

My designs include porches for all buildings designed to support aquaponics and porch agriculture.

A community garden is nice but private gardens will also be nice and it is important to have system redundancy for food growth.

this runs a few problems

1. not everyone will want one (although i know it wouldnt be required) which would create a difference between extra space vs. growing food

2. time to manage the system - since each person would need to handle it individually

3. #2 leads into this problem - since each person is managing individually, this creates a waste where excess amounts of supplies, such as nutrient solution, are being used throughout the entire city rather than in a centralized agricultural center.

Though it still needs a lot of work, the general ideas for residential areas and buildings is now up in the Wiki. It's slowly getting more work done to it and should be looked at for the latest general consensus on the workings of the city (though may always change, especially dependent on land). So far, this is based on the city being created on the original part of land in northern Nevada and of limited space (which is why condo-style is being used compared to single family residential buildings).

links?



there is no way around this, and the waste is really minimal, and is really a life style choice.

There are some "problems" which the community will need to resolve as life is lived.

As a designer, we have two choices, either make the porches or don't.

Clearly, we make the porches.

While I appreciate the simulation level thinking you are doing, it doesn't in this case matter or help us for actual design.

prometheuspan wrote:

Housing Structure
Living Quarters

i got the impression that there were images somewhere?

Images are at
atlasinitiativegroup.org/forums/conceptualization/917-atlas-city-single-living-aprtments.html

We discussed multi-story first, but scroll down to the poor pencil drawn sketches for the design described in the Wiki. The Wiki is also on the top tabs.

As for the porch agriculture, this is basically the same thought with different design. Yours requires them to be outside, while our current design pretty much just adds it to the living room and puts slanted glass on the outside. It's function, however, is the same. To support individual aquaponic design. This is based on the designs of Earthships



These have been proven in design for decades (I believe he started experimenting with different designs in the 70's), and can be infinitely more efficient with current technology and building materials.

thats great but assumes only a single story. Porches are how to take the idea multi story.

I assume you do want to take things multi story, but that you want to do so in what I'm now calling stage 3 (for lack of a better term.)

We will have a very large aquaponics building, multi-story as crops will be a huge city resource and can be retailed as well. The water damage risk in living quarters and space utilization considerations, make in residence aquaponics less than desirable. If you love aquaponics that much, work in the aquaponics center!

1. I was under the impression that we wanted each building to be as optimally self sufficient as possible.

2. Dependence on a large scale system is dangerous if the system fails. It only takes one good bug traveling through the aquaponics center to make a mess of things.

3. People will want variety and specific things in their lives which we now get by paying for them. Giving people an option to grow on their porches allows them to have more exotic personal crops.

4. Aquaponics is only one agriculture method one could also go the other route and just have potted plants.

5. It is not my place as a designer and a Utopian to tell people what to do but rather to afford them the choice to do things they might wish. If they don't want to use the porches to grow, they can use them for the view or to hang out on.



should be zero assuming we build with foamcrete and other modern materials.