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Micro-cellular Morphology
A Design approach to Msimbazi River mouth abstract

THE MANGROVE SWAMP. Msimbaazi River Mouth

The Msimbazi river mouth experiences extreme flooding power. The cytosol which houses the DNA and restructures the RNA. The
This is due to topography and river profile. The river lies at the nucleus which balances the water control. The mitochondria which
lowest slope of the total river. The surroundings are critically is the reserve energy store Cytoplasm which is the wall of the cell
affected as a result of the floods. The river mouth consists of and manages communication. These four layers have similarities in
many layers that have multiple uses. These layers are made up of behaviour with the one identified on site. The houses or structures
a water a body, mangrove bank, and others are structural (man on site (as Cytosol). The river as water body (as nucleus). The
made) all these layers have people occupying them. mangrove tree bed (as mitochondria). The flood plain (as
cytoplasm) With reference to the layers identified, to limit toxicity,
The effect of the floods on these layers the is perceived to be the cytoplasm is the part of the properties that requires a process
negative, but like all other living organisms, the one aspect is the of remapping. In microbiology this is referred to genosis.
constant flushing which is essential for the purposes of not only
flushing away the unwanted sedimentation but the negative This process basically refers to an addition of protein structure to
impact is the flushing out the nutrient whom the end user strengthen the barrier of the cell. This process ensures the direct
requires, as well as the water based species like fish and contact with plasma to limit toxicity even though it changes the
coruscations. structure of the cell.

This mechanism is employed by all living organisms, in nano and Wen this process is taken to mega scale, on site, the toxicity can be
mega scope. With all this being said, the toxicity can reach the limited by an introduction of membrane that will not only shut off
levels where the other layers of users are affected. As all these or segregate the layers but create a direct allowance of interaction
have a housing mechanism on mega scope, so do the living while limiting the toxicity these layers might bring about towards
organisms at nano scope. However, the microorganisms have a each other.
defence mechanism that they employ to hinder or limit toxicity,
this may be bacterial or virial toxicity. Simons J et al, 1989 With reference to properties and similarities of the microcellular
genosis, the design response to the site is generating a barrier that
To break down this mechanism; microorganisms have a sole will limit the toxicity of flooding and flushing. By this, the design will
mandate of ejecting, after having made a copy of the alien use biological stages and processes to limit toxicity while
intruder, the unknown trespassers with a significant level of self- maintaining an interactive standard between the bodies.
destruction. Simons J et al, 1989. This merely means that a
biological body rejects everything that penetrat or takes ”let it flood and let the river culture enjoy what it does best”
residence in it including the things that are there to help or Wetland Recreation by J Simmons in Lafayette River mouth design
enhance it. completion, USA, LAFSA 2002.

The msimbazi river mouth, the mangrove site, with its layers have
a similar behaviour to the Organelles cell. The layers being looked
at as the properties, the membrane as the barrier and the genosis
process as the design response to limit toxicity and harm these
layers seldom bring about amongst each other. The organelles
cell consists of four major players;