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Creating programmed spaces for using recycled water also generates interstitial spaces that can be used for flexible and temporary programs as the community sees fit.
A community center which can be used for healthcare or educational purposes is built with natural ventilation and daylighting and sits opposite an amphitheater which can be used for street vendors or performances.
Households in these informal parts of Lima must have water trucked to them and stored in plastic barrels. They pay five times the cost of a regular piped connection when their incomes are the lowest. Reusing this precious resource enables them to focus their income on other enterprises and the new program provides a new economic center with opportunities for the residents.
Creating programmed spaces for using recycled water also generates interstitial spaces that can be used for flexible and temporary programs as the community sees fit.
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An academic study of a living system composed of 300 people and the facilities to recycle grey water from their homes. Three constructed wetlands capture and clean water that is re-distributed for doing laundry, washing dishes, and taking showers.
Water is a precious resource in this desert city and the poorest urbanites in self-built shantytowns have less access to it.
Water used for these utilitarian household activities is tossed into the street when it is too dirty to use. Cleaning and filtering it ecologically is an economic stimulus and ecologically efficient strategy.
In this dusty desert city (the second most extensive in the world after Cairo) citizens who live in informal shelters often have no means of showering or efficiently cleaning themselves. This plan uses the collaborative atmosphere of the Latino culture and gives them a way to combine resources for the greater good of their community.
As the city of Lima has grown, the uninhabited hillsides of the near-by Andes have become the only available land for Peruvians immigrating from the countrysides into the city for the opportunities there. Leveraging the natural landscape and topography of the hillside on which Nueva Union is done here by using gravity to move water from wetland to wetland down the terraces. Once the three-day process of the various stages of filtration is complete, the water is pumped back up for use.
This project for an empty lot in Philadelphia was completed for a comprehensive architecture studio with the goal of creating an artisan's studio and attached gallery spaces.
This model represents the connection hallway between a jewelry studio and gallery. The fabric roof, louvered windows, and trellis-covered glazing all provide a connection to the outdoor experience. The gallery space is an introspective one while the studio is open to the natural influences on the surrounding site to inspire the artisans and their craft.
The architecture of this home is formed by two ribbons, one structural and one programmatic, which intertwine and wrap around each other to create the living spaces. Its three-story programmatic structure pays homage to the Philadelphia tradition while telling a modern story of form and function.