19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel. The angle of the booms would force plastic in the direction of the platforms, where it would be separated from plankton, filtered and stored for recycling.
posted on 13.03.27
Designed by Thomas Hoblyn for the 2011 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Read a blogger’s review of the entire garden here:http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/the-homebase-cornish-memories-garden/
posted on 12.11.24
Ma-Adan - Iraq
The marsh dwellers have populated the Edenic wetlands for almost 5000 years. They were an almost completely self sufficient community with the marshes producing everything they needed to survive. Sturdy reeds reaching 20 feet became raw material for homes, baskets and boats, while tender reed shoots provided plentiful forage for water buffalo, who provided milk and dung, used as fuel for fires.
The marsh-dwelling people who in the 1950’s numbered about half a million people, have now dwindled to as few as 20,000 in Iraq. The Edenic wetlands that once gave refuge to a rich variety of wildlife have become lifeless, nearly waterless, salt-encrusted mudflats, since Saddam ordered the water source to be cut off just before he lost power. Today the Eden Again Project is attempting to release water back into the marshes, with the hope that the communities will return to their original site.
posted on 12.06.29
The Norias of Hama - ancient waterwheels that feed into aquaducts
(Source: propaedeuticist)
posted on 12.06.29
Charybdis by William Pye is an installation with a spinning vortex that can be observed from multiple levels.
About the piece:
The sirens Charybdis and Scylla resided in the Sicilian Sea. Homer tells us that because Charybdis had stolen the oxen of Hercules, Zeus struck her with a thunderbolt and changed her into a whirlpool whose vortex swallowed up ships. In Charybdis the circular movement of water inside a transparent acrylic cylinder forms an air-core vortex in the centre. Steps wrap around the cylinder and allow spectators to view the vortex from above.
How it works:
An air-core vortex is generated within a circular dish. Water rises and falls within the dish in a cyclic program of water activity. When the system is full and flowing over the perimeter and down the sides, the top surface is comparatively flat and smooth, only broken by the vortex in the middle. However, as the level drops, the body of water seems to take on a life of its own, increasingly rocking and swaying as its volume diminishes unaided by any outside force.
posted on 12.06.15
WatAir
by GEOTECTURA Architectural Studio
With an ever increasing world population, water has become a diminishing resource. WatAir was designed to provide a daily source of water to victims of natural disaster or otherwise in need. The system would be distributed by aid agencies and takes one person three minutes to assemble. WatAir collects water from dew, rainfall, rivers, or ground water. The local community benefits from a design which they learn to recreate eventually becoming independent of continued water aid.
The product comes in two main parts, a frame and a funnel. This initial set of components can be replaced or repaired over time using local materials and the newly learned knowledge on water harvesting and storage.
posted on 12.04.16
undr:
Magic Garden, Aichi-ken, Linda Butler
posted on 12.04.07
Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C.
I learned about this tonight from a webinar by Sharon Danks, the founder of Bay Tree Design. The amphitheater-like space filters water and serves as their grey water the school’s toilets.
Landscape architect: Andropogon
Architect: Kieran Timberlake Associates
(Source: lindseyntabor)
posted on 12.04.05
Sit between water and fire!
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posted on 12.03.06
It might not look like much, but this technology has brought clean water to eight communities in Honduras. Read an interview with its creator on This Big City.
這項技術或許看似平凡無奇，卻已為宏都拉斯八個社區帶來淨水。發明者訪談請見《城事》。
posted on 12.02.07
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