Urban Aquaponics

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The project deals with new cultivation methods in an urban context. Like many other cities, Berlin’s waterways were highly used in the past. That relationship however has decreased with time. The project offers a modern review of those relationships as an answer to existing problems most cities face nowadays! Urban Aquaponics uses the already existing aquaponics culture and places it in the urban waters of Berlin. However, other aspects have to be integrated to establish a relationship with the city. The project’s main focuses are the connections with local inhabitants, the rela- tionship to the existing ecosystem, and the totality of the system. Considering all those aspects, a floating container building complex was created, representing a closed cycle in which all areas benefit from each other. Citizens can interact with the project through a Food-container, consuming food and other outcomes from the cultivation process. The fish and plants which grow in the same building complex interact over the water cycle, while the already existing ecosystem gives a small amount of polluted water that gets filtered through algae and eventually gets back an excess of clean water. Urban Aquaponics offers a new clean perspective for existing ecosystems in a vibrant city context!

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