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CLARISSA YEE UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
SLOwER fOOd: A CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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Food sufficiency is in need to be improved.
Production, cooking, and waste methods are areas which can be used to harness control for the consumer.
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
we are vunerable to supermarkets, markets, butchers, and all the information that comes with food. having faith in what we eat means that it could be damaging us without our knowledge. We are vunerable to ecomonic and global systems when it comes to consumables and have little control of it as an individual. It is a minefield even if we buy organic produce as the organic symbol guar-antees a set of guidelines, but not air miles, labour, carbon footprint, etc. 80% of london’s food is imported. If this was cut off, then we would survive for two maybe three days.
source Purchase information
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TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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Heat a large frying pan over a medium heat and add a good few lugs of olive oil. When the oil’s hot, add the garlic and chilli and fry until lightly coloured. Drop in most of the basil – stand back as it will crackle and spit in the oil – and then, after a few seconds, add the tomatoes. Bring to the boil and simmer for about 5 minutes. You’ll end up with a chunky sauce – if you like it smoother, pass the sauce through a coarse sieve. Taste the sauce and season with salt and pepper. Keep warm.
Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. On a lightly floured work surface, cut the lasagne sheets into strips with a knife or a pastry wheel. When the water is at a rolling boil, add the pasta and cook for a few minutes until just al dente.
Drain the pasta strips in a colander, reserving a little of the cooking water.
Stir the pasta into the warm sauce. If it’s a bit thick, add a few spoonfuls of the cooking water to loosen it up. Sprinkle with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and the
Taking one of the most popular recipes as a starting point for thinking about where the ingredients come from, the energy it takes to cook it and the
methods that can be used for cooking. These studies show that the energy and the nutrients of the food we consume can be improved.
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gas used for different cooking methods
food/gas ratio for different cooking methods
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
garlic storage to preserve picked garlic for 6-8 months- humidity and air movement is essential. Braiding the roots makes them keep longer due to the moisture in the roots.
15-18 °CVentilation
Openings made from duralmond material- controlling light enter-ing space
Thermal mass help keeps temperature constant
Ideal temperature to keep garlic
air drawn up
air drawn in
ventilated storage boxes
concrete
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
Kitchen system that takes advantage of one ring of the hob and uses that to cook using various methods. The system is adaptable for for different num-bers of people, activities and shares the cooking experience with its guests.
4 hobs 1 hobs different activities joined at one source harness other power
Solar
Sous vide
Steaming
Boiling
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
The steam itself could be used also to clean the environment without the inclusion of chemicals and uses very little water. It is efficient and can be included in the design of a flexible kitchen system
Recycled Tiles
Timber (bamboo)
concrete made with recycled materials
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TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
2.The architecture will improve the relationship between the eater and the history of his/her food.
The experience and enjoyment of eating will be drawn upon with the appreciation of where it has come from.
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
Storing and preserving of basil to cut air miles, and keep freshness of the herb. grow your own is a simple solution to gaining power of where food comes from however to do this simply and sucessfully in the home needs some organisation.
Basil could Be GroWn in sPaces like Balconies Where addi-tional outdoor kitchens could take adVantaGe of the exteri-or of the BuildinG. off run of Water could Be used to Water the Plants creatinG a Water feature.
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
growing your own fruits and vegetables design would encorporate the reusing of waste into the compost for the new plants and by bringing in the growth the the kitchen and incorporating the cooking and eating into the growing. The acknowledge of nature, and bringing about the intimate connection with tradition, nature dependence and other people we eat with.
connection With outside
Basila Plant and inGredient
other Plants Become Part of the kitchen exPerience
inside and out simultaneously
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
red and blue LEd lights
LEd lights can provide the energy to sustain these plants when sunlight is at it minimum using very little energy. This energy could also come from biogas or wind power.
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TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
Tomatoes are ripened using ethylene gas, but green tomatoes can be ripened at home in one or two weeks. Bananas give off natural ethylene gas that can ripen tomatoes in a dark and humid environment. Steam and heat from cooking could create the ideal enviroment. Also, the area needs to be well observed to check for any over ripe or moldy tomatoes.
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TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
oxygen
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singular space where ripening hap-pens simultaneously
individual for dif-ferent fruits and rates of ripening
how containment with airholes controls dif-ferent gases
tomato turning for even ripening
bowls in different environments
Creating a shared environment for ripening
sharable ripening space with different enrivon-ments within the archi-tecture of the spaces
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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Ripening environment heated by the sun and the heat and humidity from cooking on the other side. The proximity to the kitchen also means that the fruit and veg that is ripe can be picked up on the way to the kitchen to cook or eat it. It becomes integrated into the journey of the user so that it is checked everyday.
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TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
architecture that adapts to the changing needs of its eat-ers
The architecture will be able to adapt to the needs of its eater. If there are more guests or the cook and the eaters want to eat outside or feel as if they are eating inside threshold will be able to adapt to this.
smaller/winter
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sliding house
loose knit and tiGht knit
car motorruns in tracks
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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Architecture will aim to promote a healthy lifestyle by improving nutritional knowledge.
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
To maximise the benefits of eating well and not to waste. This kitchen storage and washing design divides food into the food groups and is an educational tool to help decide what is involved in making a balanced meal. The computer system provides the necessary information of what members of a household may be lacking, their food history and information about what is in the cupboards.
carbohydratesVegetables
Protein dairy
offices and schools
reuse of water for herb growing
touch screen for ordering, seeing lev-els, time
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
rural preserve suburban general urban urban centre
individual dwelling
communal foraging
city eating
beyond the back garden
tomato turning basil picking
meal planner
eating in the wilderness
controlling enironment
Zoetrope based on the bridge between rural reserve and urban core relative to food production, food storage and experience of eating
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
Translating actions onto the zoetrope has shown the different actions through motion as one movement from outside to the inside of the disc. This brings about notions of food, land, water, waste and users to different systems.
actionstests
elevation
River Lune
retrieving meal
turning tomato
picking basil
Water recycling
changing eating environment
actors
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
wilderness
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The actions relating to each part of the world/ city/ house. The actions could take part in a number of places, and over the span of a day. The zoetrope questions these relationships and how they could work with one another.
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
Zoetrope Video 1 min looped
Finalised zoetrope - The video shows the overall working ability of the model, but also how it could potentially be used to create a definition of a food and architecture typology.
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
dOCUmENT 1 BRIEf ANd AgENdA
a- Brief
- Programme
housing and public shared facilities for Lancaster Co-housing group. There will be approximately 32 households comprising of houses 1-3 bed, houses and studio units. There will also be common facilities for shar-ing and preparing food. Laundry, visitors housing, car pooling and other activities will be shared within the scheme. The emphasis on the project is about food sustainablility and general sustainable living. Appreciating where food comes from and the enjoyment of the experience of eating as a social past time. work space has already been provided in the old mill building, as some people in the group would like to work from this site to avoid having to travel to the nearest town halton. Pedestrian and cycling will be encouraged and car use will be kept to a minimum around the houses.
housing- Total Area 2170m² consisting of:
12 x 1 bed flat-55m² = 660m²10 x 2 bed- 2 storey, total floor area 65m²= 650m²7 x 3 bed- 2 storey, total floor area 80m² = 560m²3 x 3 bed- 3 storey, total floor area 100m² = 300m²
Common house- Total Area 360m²+ consisting of:
Dining 60m²Guest house 50m²Children’s room -30m²Food store- 30m²Laundry 20m²Extra storage 20m²Social space 75m²Growing space- 75m²+
- Accurate definition of site
Site is a 2.5 acre plot on the outskirts of halton, North west England. It runs alongside the river Lune, and is 3.4 miles away from Lancaster town center. It is easily navigated by bike and car. historically, it was a site for an engineering company ‘Luneside Engineering’ and in 1950 they built me-chanical life size elephants which they took on tour around the country. Before this there were several mills on the site for cotton, linseed, fabrics before the businesses ceased and the properties sold. These mills did use the water from the river nearer the eastern end to use in ponds and building processes. It now houses one out of use old mill building.
The Site will be homes for different types of family and single people. They are in groups of 1, 2,3 and 4+ people. There are 75 people 25 of which are people under 18. A good proportion of which are over 50, and are either retired or are looking for a community feel as their children have left their homes.They share a common interest in ideas about community and slow food movement.Permanent users of the common house will be the residents, and their guests. There may be some chance that in the future these facilities will be able to be used or sold to the public. water from the Lune will be able to be harnessed for domestic use. There is a delicate balance of natural systems in the river and animal habi-tat around the river. Bringing foreign water up and down the river or plant matter could cause damage to the native plants and animals,
- Funding
The lancaster co-housing group had bought the site with some personal backing and shares to the value of £5000. Individual members to the group were required to pay for their plot according to the size of their dwelling. 5 bed: £36,0000, 1 bed £18,000. These plot sales went back to the founder of the group, and to pay for the site, and the professionals.They expect that in the next phase of recruitment the house prices will be in the region of £130K to £285K. The build costs will largely be fi-nanced by a corporate loan. It is anticipated that this will be a rolling loan facility. This loan will cover a maximum of 70% of the project costs, there-fore members have to put down a 30% deposit.
The money required from members at different stages in the project is as follows:
On joining- £5Kwithin 3 months of joining- 30% (or more) of projected house cost (minus £5K already provided)Build completion- Cash or individual mortgages for the remaining 70% (or less)
Paying for the homes could not be done through self-build loan as tthe homes are bought on a 999 year leasehold not a freehold, so the only way to fund this is corporate loans. Since, this is personally funded many members will have to sell their current homes before the new homes will be built and live in rented accomodation in halton until the houses will be available to be moved into.
1 in 3 people now live alonein Britain
85% of us don’t know our neighbours
aerial view of site
topographical context of site
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
dOCUmENT 1 BRIEf ANd AgENdA
b- Agenda
- list of matters to be addressed
1. Food sufficiency is in need to be improved. Production, cooking, and waste methods are areas which can be used to harness control for the consumer.2. The architecture will improve the relationship between the eater and the history of his/her food.The experience and enjoyment of eating will be drawn upon with the appreciation of where it has come from. 3. Architecture will aim to improve nutritional knowledge by promoting a healthy lifestyle.4. Architecture will respect and preserve the natural environment that it is housed in.5. The workings of architectural systems will be made obvious to its users in a friendly and understandable way.
- intentions of the project.
Aims to improve food quality that is the dietry value, and the enjoyment value as a community and social activity by providing a scheme for living, growing and providing. By being mindful of the surroundings and the existing nature cycles that we are part of, the intention wil be to add to and improve these systems of food waste, cooking, food production and by doing this having more of a connection with where our food comes from. Even though the feeling of these communities are old fashioned, the scheme should bring out it’s modern in attitude and outlook. It should set an example of a new and successful way of living, socialising with the community around you and to have an appreciation of the surroundings. It should promote social activity between all families, races and ages but also respect the privacy of individual households and members of the community that may not live on the premises.
It should be open to all as a way of living, and the process of adjusting to this way of life should be as easy and natural as possible.
- motivations of the project.
Slow food as a link between land and food.To build a ‘link’ between living and eating in set of building systems which treat the two activities as an engaging and dependent of each other. Treating ‘nature’ not as an all mighty all beautiful object to admire, but as a delicate and almost dangerous world in which to be
part of needs close attention to the systems already taking place in it. Therefor the architecture will try to preserve the land as much as possible. Symbiotic relationship between the processes of people, animals and plants. The slow food attitude extends to that of the environment- to protect it as it provides us with nutritional value that we must not destroy. As all the waste products from cooking, cleaning, packaging, heating will have an effect on the surroundings, which will in turn have an effect on the land which provides us food, The motivation of this project is not just to produce a eco villiage but to set en example of the quality of living and feeding ourselves and the environment well.
Food sufficiency in the way of production, cooking and waste produced must be dealt with to fit into the local environment and not to pollute it. many ‘normal’ species of plants may pollute the river which can have dramatic problems on the habitat of the river animals and plants. This is true about foreign water also. So, there will be a motivation to produce a set of systems which will benefit the surroundings not add to the problem.
Slow food as communityfood Enjoyment and Production- Production and enjoyment can be done as a whole community. As the site is gastronomically remote (It is still easier to buy things from a supermarket in this area than go to a farm shop or market) sharing will help reduce the vunerabilities of community.Some households being responsible for certain areas of the common facilities will allow people to take ownership of the activities while sharing the facilities with others. It will therefore encourage people to look after shared spaces and encourage socialising.
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TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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Architecture will respect and preserve the natural environment that it is housed in.
TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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Alluviummaterial deposited byriver- silt and clay sand and gravel and a good deal of organic matter
Till, Devensianmaterial deposited by glacial ice- a presence of large angular rock fragments. Oldest surficial deposit
Glaciofluvial Deposits-Deposits of streams formed by the melting of glaciers. These deposits are sorted and stratified by the action of water
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river lune
The site is part of a region where the bedrock is made of Roeburndale member bedrock,ward’s Stone Sandstone. It is typically sharp and erosional, and rests upon siltstones and fine-grained sandstones of the Roeburndale specific to lancashire. The slow food attitude extends to that of the environment- to protect it as it provides us with nutritional value that we must not destroy.
m6- easy reach to the rest of the cointry by car
due to the rock and soil build up of the area, the nutritional value of the soil and the rock build up is important in the habitats for wild salmon, trout, beavers, and owls to name a few. There is risk of contaminating the river and soil of the river which could easily wash debris and waste up the river and destroy habitats.
barn owlshousing on decline
batshouses need to be maintained
wild salmon and troutfalling rocks may block their path for migration
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CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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15 mins to Halton Centre
2. 18th century mill Building 4. River Lune1. Banks of the Lune 3. Boathouse and fishing hut
mill Building
Boat house and fishing hut
existing house
crumbling rock faces made of sand-stone and limestone- integral to landscape but not good for growing on
lancashire and the m6-
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distanced from supermarkets and major farm shops and farmer’s markets
farm shops farms supermarkets
Site looks as if it is in the middle of a bounty of food, however, it is ac-tually isolated from the purchase of food there are more chances to buy food in supermarkets than it is to get it from a farm. As these farms sell their produce to industry only.distance from food and its source is further here than in the city where it appears more abundant
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Site photographs
ground here paved over, as there were existing buildings on this site, as there has been since 1930
The site is isolated and even though in close proximity to farms the ‘distance’ from food is further than people who live in the city, which makes sharing between the community more important. It becomes the link between enjoyment of food and living to the land where it is from. Its connection with the land is potentially evident, but the appreciation of slow food is not. The site looks like a rural food growing heaven from afar, but in actual fact it has been a paved building site since 1930s with crumbling rock faces. The rocks themselves are dangerous river habitat and can distrupt the flow of the river. Building on the site can also affect flying creatures like owls and bats.
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dOCUmENT 2. Location plan and functional program.
3.tomato turninG 4.eatinG in Wilderness
5.adaPtaBle eatinG enVironment
1.meal PlanninG 2.communal GroWinG
from sinGle housinG to co-housinG
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sinGle housinG tyPical of halton
houses sPlit into PriVate and com-munal
communal house With outdoor shared sPace
food storage
riVer lune
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location of different areas of liv-ing, and socialising according to ac-tivity.
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communal house
individual houses
existingmill building
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existingboating and fishing
growing
meeting
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childrens play
veg turning
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TOwARdS A SLOw fOOd CO-hOUSINg TYPOLOgY
CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
I’d like to live with a bunch of friends who all ate together and helped look after each other’s children.” - Pete
Pete
luke
chris
Jan
“I work around the country and often from home - which will be great overlooking the Lune.”- Jan
“I look forward to living in community and hope that others will be inspired by the eco-living side of the project.”- Kathy
kathy
fiona“I always thought I’d suffer from ‘empty nest syndrome’ when my daughter left home, so I wanted to have other people around me when that happened”.- fiona
“Living on your own has its attraction, but it is not all it’s cracked up to be!”- Chris
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The Lancaster Co-housing group consists of 75 members, 8 of the directors are introduced here with their own takes on co-housing, and what they think of the community. Each family type consists of different number of people, and ages.
defininG the community tyPes of families Within the community adults children visiting offspring
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CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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The workings of building systems will be made obvious to its users in a friendly and understandable way.
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CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
shoPPinG list
hand mechanised system to draW control comPression of structure
sPonGes
shoWer curtain
BamBoo
sink hole coVer
The Shower Cloud - made from everyday materials that will draw water from the River Lune to be used for showering when needed. This system stores water in the sponges, which in turn is squeezed out when the bamboo structure is retracted releasing water needed for showering, watering plants, flushing toilets and the like.
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CLARISSA Y E E UNIT 22 YEAR 4 PROJECT 2011-2012
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BY RESPECTINg ThE CYCLES ThAT ThE BUILd-INg IS hOUSEd IN- ThE PROCESSES wORK wITh ThE SITE ANd ITS INhAB-ITANTS whEThER ThAT IS hUmAN ANImAL OR PLANT.
fOOd IS gROwN IN A dIffERENT wAY fROm whAT IS ExPECTEd. Off ThE gROUNd, wITh ThE wATER BEINg fILTEREd BEfORE IT IS RELEASEd BACK TO ThE wILd. ThIS IS TO PRESERVE ANd wORK wITh NATIVE SPECIES Of ThE SITE ANd APPRECIAT-INg ThE LINK wE hAVE wIThIN ThIS ENVIRON-mENT
mAChINE COOKINgin which the heat from washing machines can power cooking methods such as sous vide.
BIO COmPOSTERvegetable peelings and other wastes composted using microbes and worms which can be used as fertiliser
BIO TOILETWaste is flushed plant filtration system that provides waste for biofuel and plants benefit also. Excess water is filtered down
wATERINg CLOUdwater stored in ‘cloud’ made of recycled plastics and used to water plant beds depending on what areas need it.
PLANT BEdSPlant beds raised off and positioned on top of rocks found naturally on site to filter the water clean before it is released back to the river
rainfall in halton Water reQuired domesticallywATER fROm RIVER LUNEdrawn up through pump into a pool that can be used for animals and birds. the reduced number of natural birds has meant a decline in fish over the years so this will help to replenish the health of the local species.
wATER TO BE fILTEREd BY SITE mATERIALThe bank will be used to filter the water by archimedes screw powered by bike and then using the natural rocks on the banks to filter the water for the 1st time.Some water will be filtered by slow sand filtered using a similar system, but with a layer of bacteria
wATER TURNEd TO STEAmto clean, cook and heat houses, excess steam will be turned back to water and used clean the exterior as it runs down to the ground
hEATINg
CLEANINg
COOKINg
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