IDEA:
L1-81 - Naval hydroponic system as a reflection of humanization of life and work spaces in marine habitat.

PILLAR:
C - Waterborne

RESEARCH AREA:
RA11 - Human Dimension in Transport

TEAM NAME:
Magdalena Nowak

TEAM MEMBERS:
Magdalena Nowak (Team leader)


UNIVERSITY:
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk

COUNTRY:
POLAND

ABSTRACT:
The extreme
living spaces of modern man illustrate the loss of balance between the Biosphere, created by the slow process
of evolution, and the Technosphere shaped
by our civilization. Emphatic examples of such distraction is a daily life in
places such as naval ships, oil rigs, drilling platforms and floating
refineries. Although existing conventions regulate conditions under which they
work, they are created mostly to maintain safety of a ship - a valuable working
tool. Due to that a psychophysical condition and comfort of the crew is
not a decisive factor in ship design, as far as economical and safety factors
are considered. This forces man to adapt to the machine - not the other way
around. It remains a fully industrial environment, providing the space necessary
to perform work, but enabling just a minimum of strength recovery for a crew, required
to continue the indicated tasks.

My proposal
of the naval hydroponic block (NHB) is one of the possible tools for
"humanizing" marine habitat. It allows the introduction of
biologically active tissue into the previously inanimate industrial world.

As a
comprehensive system solution, integrated with the wall lining panels, it meets
all the standards by which ships are currently designed. It is manufactured
industrially and using generally available marine technology. The implemented
solutions would allow for execution of several finishing versions and its
multiplication in one panel/room extent.

NHB could
be widely used in marine environments. Thanks to that, it becomes a testimony
to the "ecological modernity" of the ships, thus incorporating modern
design trends.