UltraShortPulse did the bulk of the work for our cycles solve, so I (Jackeea) volunteered to get working on area. As a certified "fling things everywhere and get the product done for some definition of "fast"" enjoyer, area theory is not my forte! 

You need a bonding glyph (definitely) and you need the two metal glyphs (maybe?), so one hex to shunt the input in and three hexes of track to move things around is the nice happy medium I settled for.

37 area feels 100,000% doable, 36 is maybe doable with some trickery, any lower would require Shenanigans of which I remain unaware. Still, this does the job