School of Design | Graduate Interior Design
Student: Pravallika Thirumalasetty
Collage of the proposed site with the water and water systems depicted to show the circular nature and distribution of systems vertically through the building. Using watercolor paint, the subtlety of the flow of water waste is depicted through the floors which people populate the building by the facade.
This project activates a cyclic economy to deploy water and waste production systems to reimagine the role of housing, as a tool, to foster opportunity. Creating an intrinsic network of resource production, sharing, accumulation, and waste, the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg transforms into a community generator by reimagining the food production cycle. With community planting and composting within the perimeters of the site, all aspects of the products are consumed or used.
The site acts as a wastewater treatment plant through which water from the East River is drawn, processed, used for hydroponic farming and the resident’s needs, and clean water is let out back to the river.
Initial planning of programs per floor to map out the sustainable systems in the building. The wastewater system and water system flow throughout the building cyclically.
Vertical hydroponic farming allows the residents to grow, cook, sell or consume the produce they make in the building they reside in.
Mesh filters in the wastewater treatment floor help provide a teaching moment to residents or visitors by understanding the processes involved in water treatment and also watching it happen!
Visitors can walk through and watch the water they consume be treated in situ.
