Capture the Rain

Hey guys, if you have some free time check out this link to ArchDaily about one of the entries to the eVolo Skyscraper Design Challenge, they were one of the Honorable Mentions. Fairly interesting idea on how to capture rainwater on the macro skyscraper scale. Not exactly applicable to what we are doing, but the idea is somewhat related.

Enjoy.

http://www.archdaily.com/52671/capture-the-rain-h3ar/#more-52671

Lecture Notes + Concept Generation

Fairly self explanatory posting, just putting up my limited amount of notes from today's lecture and the pictures of the whiteboard notes from today's meeting. Please refer to these in the generation of your concepts and keep in mind this "Holistic Approach" we are trying to achieve, this layering of information, systems, ideas, etc...

Again I am really looking forward to what we all come up with, now is the time to run free with the ideas that we have all been thinking about. Remember, nothing is too crazy at the point, explore as much as possible, work out as many idea sets as you can, but most importantly, have some fun with it and you may have some surprising results!

Studio Notes from 3/11/2010

Hey guys, here are my notes from Last Thursday's Studio Session. Please review the assignment sheet that is listed below the notes for more direction on what we will be working on for next week. Please take the time to go through the research that has been posted on the FTP thus far, but the main focus will be on generating design concepts. Use any means/mediums you feel are necessary to help you produce your ideas. Also after this post I will be posting the pictures and notes from today as a reminder of what we discussed during today's meeting.

I am really looking forward to seeing what we can produce!

Studio Notes Part 2

Studio Notes Continued

These are the last two studio sessions, as well as notes from our Meeting and Activity with HAC. I will be scanning my notes from the in studio sessions from now on and posting them here to keep you guys in the loop in conjunction with the emails, since there are times I will forget something I write off to the side on the page.

Studio Notes Part 1

Just some of my notes from the Thursday night sessions, I will post the others notes and sketches as there is a five image limit.

Residential Catchment System

In optimum scenarios, 1 inch of rainfall collected off of a 1000 square foot surface can equal 600 gallons of captured water. If half of every household's water supply could be sustained by a Rain Catchment System, we would greatly alleviate the pressures on our current water sources.
Water use for an average household in North America is 293 gallons per day. In this chart, we can see that more than 50% of our average water use does not need to be potable water.

The average household is not designed to differentiate between fixtures that need potable water and those that don't.
System sizes are determined by square footage of catchment area, annual rainfall & water demand.
A home Rain Catchment System can supply water to any or all of these uses: * Toilets * Clothes Washer * Faucets * Dishwasher * Showers * Baths * Landscaping * Potable Use


http://www.wonderwater.net/