A NEW START – Term 2

Last term is not very satisfactory. I do not express my idea very well, but in this term, I will try to change the deteriorating situation.

The Aim

Last term I did a sample project which is a network in the forest. It is not all of my idea. In this term, the project will be going forward. Actually, I want create a biologic factory which can grow by himself. The sample network changes to a complicated system. This change based on the evolution of individual device (the “flower”) in the network. All this process like the growing plant -- every same cell in the seed grow to the different part and function—leafage, base, branch—after the different activities.

The Set

The set I chose is in east of London-- The Ripple Nature Reserve. This area is a industrial area, and there are a very large power station-- Barking Power Station—beside the set. Set among the industrial landscape of Barking Riverside and once a dumping area for pulverized fuel ash, The Ripple provides a fascinating example of how nature can reclaim industrial wasteland. The dumping of fuel ash has created a soil that is very alkaline and therefore different to most soils in London (they are mostly acidic). This means that many plant species that can tolerate the soils of The Ripple struggle to grow elsewhere locally.

The Ideas

The set is a fantastic place for my project. There is a big electric transformer substation and Microwave Station near the set. When it works, it will set off the stronger microwave radiation. All the set will be covered by this radiation, but the levels of the intensity are different, which means the area closer to the transformer substation has a high level of microwave radiation. It is one of the outside environment effects for the “network”. The device (the “flower”) in high level area will activate by this situation, and grow to a “protector” which like a protect wall to reduce the level of intensity behind it. In additional, microwave radiation is a type of energy, so the other device (the “flower”) grows to the “receiver” which can receive the radiation for energy. And also the device (the “flower”) on the land activates by the high level of alkaline in the soil, and grows to a neutralization device. There are many other kind of direction of growing, like to a “reactor” which is only used for compose the organic compound, “storage” for store the energy and organic compound. Finally the device (the “flower”) will grow to some habitat for animal, like the birds nest or honeycomb. It will form a self-growing biologic factory system.