The Rural Studio was a great experience in many aspects. Although in order to select one moment, I must think environmentally. The most successful project or componet of a project was the grey water collection system at the baseball park. This project stood out to me for a few reasons, 1) second year studio we focused on water and designed a project that reacted to water 2) I have heard of the importance of collecting grey water, but I had never seen it done.
This is a system that will be included in hopefully every building I ever design. I still think all the water from the roof should have drained into the two reservoirs, but the system they had is a good start. Also, could the water have been used for more things than just flushing the toliets?
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Blane -- I really appreciate your contribution to the energy and discussions in the studio. Keep up the good work. This observation / reflection is really interesting...do you think that rain water collection would work on either or both of our sites?
Jori
yes, grey water can be utilized, in particularly on the pendleton site. by turning the site or some of the site into a garden (vegi, herb, or/and ornamental) instead of letting the water simply runoff, it can be used to grow food which then can feed the local contributers/neighbors.
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