Rich Aired Serra (RAS) is a sculptural support for gardenig. Ispired to a Jimmie Durham sculpture and Richard Serra art's principles, the RAS is not a static sculpture. At first it is a semi-mobile device, second, it is for a variegated types of gardening or different uses. The basic structure is for sustain horizontal or vertical Substrates for greening. It could to be used in a domestic enrvironment or in open air urban spaces. The concept desing of Supports and Substrates (structure and infrastructure) is the rappresentation of relationship between organism and environment as conditions for life. It reminds the semplcity and the complexity of life re-producing. Gardenig is not a decorative practice; It is an aestetics practice of micro-environment production.

Substrate as a concept, Substrate as a praxis

“Substrate definition: The surface or material on or from which an organism lives, grows, or obtains its nourishment (Oxford Dictionary)”

Substratum definition: 1. Something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another. 2. Something that underlies or serves as a basis or foundation. 3. Agriculture. the subsoil. 4. Biology. the base or material on which a nonmotile organism lives or grows. 5. Philosophy. substance, considered as that which supports accidents or attributes. 6. Photography. a layer of material placed directly on a film or plate as a foundation for the sensitive emulsion. 7. Historical Linguistics. a set of features of a language traceable to the influence of an earlier language that it has replaced, especially among a subjugated population.

Hydroculture

_Types: Aero Aquaponics Aquascaping Hydroponics passive

_Subtypes: Aquatic garden Bottle garden Deep water culture Ebb and flow Fogponics Microponics Nutrient film technique Organic hydroponics Organopónicos Sub-irrigated planter

_Substrates: Charcoal Coco peat Diatomaceous earth Expanded clay Gravel Growstones Lava rock Mineral wool Perlite Pumice Rice hulls Sand Vermiculite Wood fibre

_Accessories: Grow light Hydroponic dosers Irrigation sprinkler Leaf sensor Net-pot Spray nozzle Timers Ultrasonic hydroponic fogger Water chiller

_Related concepts: Algaculture Aquaculture of coral Aquaculture of sea sponges Controlled-environment agriculture Historical hydroculture Hydroponicum Paludarium Plant nutrition Plant propagation Rhizosphere Root rot Vertical farming Water aeration

The experience | Mescola Restaurant in Civitanova Marche (Italy)

The Rich Aired Serra project (RAS) was applied in order to create a restaurant dehor. The main function is to create a separation of the space that can always be moved or removed easily. It's a suspended micro-garden, slightly elevated from the floor, that separates and joins two different spaces. It could be a garden-table. It could be a cart.

It's a cultivable and movable space, that separates the hall while allowing the separated rooms to communicate. An outside eating space is the extreme exposition of this sharing cicle (and the bonds generated from production to transformation of the food, consumption and where it is consu- med).