My work aims at the design, technical and aesthetic investigation of the possibility of a complete installation of a complex of buildings submerged in the ground in the southern part of the island of Aegina. The technical program includes industrial-scale vertical cultivation units, fresh food preservation and packaging departments and reception, accommodation and training areas for young people who intend to work and be trained in the new cultivation techniques and practices, demands and achievements of the search for the system of theories of Degrowth and Political Ecology.

 The proposal is based on the assumption of the integrated supply of the island with vegetables, fruits and plants, but also the specialization with educational tactics of young people about nature, crops and the autonomy of limited spatial areas (islands, valleys, mountain communities) in energy and food.

 Visitors will observe the complex series of primary planting in containers and then the implementation of large-scale vertical cultivation. Harvesting, packaging, preservation and also gastronomy. In addition, they can participate in training programs to acquire special knowledge about the practices followed. To understand the theoretical/political/strategic background that is now an essential part of the global debate on Degrowth and autonomy. Residing in a complex of weather-protected buildings sunk into the ground energetically self-powered in balance with the immediate and wider environment of the island.