Day 8 Course Outline - Aquaculture and Wetlands

Aquaculture

• systems and strategies
• natural wetland and eco-systems
• hydroponics and intensive systems

Design and pattern

• random assembly – options and decisions
• overlays and exclusion method
• design methods summary
• pattern: networks and cells

Climate – weather systems

• climate and landform
• climate and house design

Lunch

Ponds and lakes

• functions and yields – ecologies
• nitrogen cycle – eutrophication – oxygen BOD and COD
• thermoclines – strategies and construction – edge, chinampas

Aquaculture

• fish farming
• aquaponics

Natural waste water treatment

• living systems – domestic – industrial/ remedial