LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS
SUMMARY
This paper shows a practical research that make use of biological classification references in order to categorize the soil microorganisms, water and electric infrastructure of three landscape architecture projects on different locations 窶電ehesas, dry meadows and dry hot valleys-, all designed taking into account the dry climate conditions of Spain. The presented landscape interventions require, at first place, electricity to activate the irrigation system and lighting equipment; at the same time, they need gravity to facilitate the drainage and accumulation of water in reservoirs; and, finally, they depend on the meteorological conditions for the process of the plant fertilization, humidity, etc. The research is focused on analysing the meso scale (humans, animals, plants and machines), micro-scale (unicellular beings) and macro-scale (thermodynamic/climatic parameters). There is an invisible relationship between the living system of micro-organisms and the electric infrastructure. What we find as signs of life in the form of animals and plants (plug-in elements) would be unable to survive without the structural chain of micro-organisms (electricity), such as an electric system.
The living system of microorganisms > The electric infrastructure: 1. Cytoplasm: Food uptake > Energy Resources 2. Digestive vacuoles: Food digestion > Conversion Electricity 3. Shrink vacuoles: Waste expulsion > Emissions CO2-H2O 4. Macronucleus (a): Feeding + Micronﾃｺcleus (b): Sexuality > Power Stations 5. Trichocyst: Protection > Generators 6. Cilia: Mobility > Transmission Tower
Analysing the infrastructure of dry landscape architecture in Spain through the study of micro-organisms
Cristina Jorge Camacho