MOBILIZING WATER

The mobilising water project is an exploration of architecture and its relationship to microclimate and community. The prototypical structure from semester one responds to changes in water accessibility and construction waste on the local site in West Silvertown by providing a water capturing and filtering system for residents, workers, and wildlife. Each capturing tower utilises soil recycled from the excavation site of the silvertown tunnel to purify water to varying degrees depending on the location and purpose of the tower. The community responses of each tower vary from serving as construction site shelters, playsets, and greenhouses but all aim to give essential members of the community a space to comfortably gather outdoors. The second semester building addresses similar issues of water scarcity and construction waste on a larger scale and therefore pulls inspiration from many of the components of the first semester prototype. In the modular composition of the building elegant structural timber joinery and clay cooling pillars serve a temperate rainforest and wastewater treatment plant below and hoist affordable housing for the community above. Creating a low emission multifunctional space which revives dying ecosystems, recycles and treats rainwater, and reduces the impacts of gentrification on West Silvertown.