Streets to Silos - Harvesting water over our heads
Elang Kumaran
The project proposes a system of rainwater harvesting techniques on an urban scale intervention that can promote water conservation and harvesting. Studies suggest that rainwater collection techniques have been successful in ways that can conserve water, increase groundwater aquifer levels, promote sanitation and have direct impacts on climate change effects.
The project aims at a design that can channel through all the houses in each street through an elevated gutter and store it in a common facility at potential locations. These channels also act as physical infrastructures that aim at providing threshold spaces that the residents can use as an extension of their homes as refuge spaces. The catchment areas are the ones that would also promote an associated function, be it a public toilet, a child-friendly learning space, a community kitchen, a play area, a healthcare facility, etc.
The project aims at a design that can channel through all the houses in each street through an elevated gutter and store it in a common facility at potential locations. These channels also act as physical infrastructures that aim at providing threshold spaces that the residents can use as an extension of their homes as refuge spaces. The catchment areas are the ones that would also promote an associated function, be it a public toilet, a child-friendly learning space, a community kitchen, a play area, a healthcare facility, etc.
