Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

Hydroponic

Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture and is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium, such as perlite or gravel.1 As Peter Harper mention in Autonomy., “greenhouses are extremely useful aids to autonomy in food production, and are often incorporated into dwelling structure.”2 Greenhouse can extend the time of the growing season and has a varied production, in an autonomous house a greenhouse can not only provide food production but also can purify air, permitting lower ventilation rates and lower heat losses. In Street Farm House a semi-hydroponic system was successfully used, together with the usual temperate crops grown outside the house, make the unit self-sufficient in vegetables for most of the year. Hydroponic has certain disadvantages, for example, chemical nutrients need to be brought from the outside, even with a careful recycled, certain minerals and vitamins might not enough to sustain it. However, these disadvantages can be overcome by combining bedding systems, species of plants etc. Overall, compared to soil plant, hydroponic have a higher growth rate, use less water and fewer pesticides. Therefore, hydroponic is a system that has the potential to widely apply to greenhouses.

1: www.hydroponics.net. Accessed April 28, 2015.
2: Peter Harper, “Autonomy II: Means of Autonomy” in Godfrey Boyle & Peter Harper (Eds), Radical Technology, New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.