Water collection architecture

UPDATE: See the Watershed home in all its glory at the 2011 Solar Decathlon. This home placed 1st in the Solar Decathlon, also winning the Architecture category along the way. The original review of the model follows below. - For the upcoming 2011 Solar Decathlon, the team from the University of Maryland, College Park, is striving

The benefits of rainwater harvesting systems go beyond just use in the home, helping to reduce storm water runoff, erosion, and contamination of water surfaces with pesticides.

In this project, I present Models 26 and 27, two different design variants of butterfly roof structures specifically looking at how design alone is able to passively reduce much of a building's energy requirements. If you have been following this blog series, you've definitely noti

Image 10 of 57 from gallery of Pingshan Terrace, the Renovation of Nanbu Water Purification Station / NODE Achitecture & Urbanism. Photograph by Chao Zhang

bus station with water conservation system inside structure leaf shade

Global climate changed, in particular global warming; Ozone depletion; Loss of habitat, and endangerment of species. Environmental Design and Sustainability became main factor to be addressed in most of the development. In terms of a larger scope, environment design has implications for the industrial design of products: automobile, energy re-used, solar panel and etc. Architecturally, Innovation became key challenge to address the environmental design on top of industrial product…

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