Congrats on the puzzle design as it was pretty challenging. I am not sure that this layout offers the best area, given the unused swing space in the middle (those arms are only used once), but I didn't have time for more. I hope it is enough to get top 10. 
I had a lot of issues routing the atoms so the water/fire moved from one side to the other. Also, the horizontal initial inputs had to take a weird path to avoid a collision with the atoms produced by the animismus glyph. Some optimizations brought my initial area from 156 to 146 further improvements require a layout overhaul.