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The symbiosis between functionality and aesthetics, urban planning and engineering, ecology and agriculture characterizes the Final Degree Project (TFG) of the civil engineer by UPCT Pablo Murillo Landín, also a student of Architecture.
The multidisciplinarity of the student is condensed in his project of research center of hydroponic and aquaponic crops for the industrial estate Cabezo Beaza of Cartagena, in which he has designed and carried out the industrial calculation of an iconic ship that attracts new companies for its aesthetics and customers.
“This TFG is a very interesting synthesis of solutions from Architecture and Structural Engineering for a building adapted to its research function but also designed to transmit a business message through its aesthetics,” sums up the project tutor, Gregorio Sánchez Olivares, which also highlights the "very rigorous calculation of all structural elements" by Murillo Landín, currently employed by Técnicas Reunidas in Cartagena, to conclude with a 10 degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT).
The proposed building would promote and disseminate sustainable intensive agriculture techniques such as hydroponic and aquaponic crops, which optimize the use of resources and minimize the environmental impact of agricultural production.
"By cultivating in mineral solutions, without soil, hydroponics allows stacking the crops in height, gaining density per square meter and facilitating the management of waste and avoiding contamination of the subsoil," sums up the author of the project.
Aquaponics goes one step further, involving a symbiosis of hydroponic and aquaculture crops, in which the biological waste of the fish serves as nutrients to the plants, where the water is filtered and recycled, reducing the discharge of leachate.
The research center would also have the urban objective of improving the attractiveness of the Cabezo Beaza industrial estate due to the uniqueness and attractiveness of its design, based on translucent alveolar polycarbonate panels that would reveal the research activity and project the constant illumination of hydroponic crops.
"It would be a building of strong personality, which would value its interior activity," says the tutor of the TFG, who considers this project "a reference" of the potential of students of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Polytechnic of Cartagena.
Source: UPCT
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