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Living Machine water Tower(LMWT) WATER REGENERATION IN DROUGHT LAND URBAN SOS 2011 COMPETITION (FINALISTS)

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Living Machine water Tower(LMWT) WATER REGENERATION IN DROUGHT LAND URBAN SOS 2011 COMPETITION (FINALISTS)

Growing Water Tower Believe it or not, the water problem is worse than most people realize, particularly in several large cities, such as Madrid, Beijing and Ankara which are occasionally low on water already but will face definite shortfalls in the next few years. Compared with traditional water storage method- the Water Tower, the massive challenge for designers is how to use the effective ways to deal with water problem considered both functional and aesthetically.

The Living Machine Water Tower (LMWT) not only provide the low cost recycling water for urban residents but more as growing urban inhabitant exchange linkage, creating wetlands on dry land, transporting the re-use water naturally by wetlands water corridor, generating walkable community water park within landscape value. Site located along the ChamartĂ­n District, northeast of Madrid, Spain. It occupies more than 750 acres (320 acres of park) of suburban of underutilized active rail yards.

WATER POWER SYSTEM TYPICAL SOLAR PANEL

LIVING MACHINE TOWER

ROOF GREEN To decrease temperature Water collection

WETLANDS LAYERS

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WETLANDS LAYERS Biomedicine systems

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Mitigating Tank

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3th Layer

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Storage Tank

Water Outlet

SOLAR POWER SYSTEM Combine multiple sources to deliver non-intermittent electric power

TYPICAL SOLAR PANEL

2011

220 W/HR

(.72 MJ/HR)

0%

2020

270W/HR

(.90 MJ/HR)

30%

2030

330 W/HR

(1.0 MJ/HR)

60%

Water Outlet

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single water tower niche

water creating

Eco-Grid space forming rain water domestic water

pocket wetlands water detention box phytodegradation hyperaccumulation Organic PCE Vinyl Chloride Dichloroethene (cis) Metal Arsenic Copper Pesticide Endrin O,p-DDT

PERMEABLE LAYER

WATER inlet 1. grey water outlet 2. water pump station 3. up to pocket wetlands clean water 4. pocket wetlands phytodegradation 5. living machine column 6. grey water purification classification 7. water storage tank 8 sterilization filtration water sample text daily 9. recycling water

INLET

WATER out let

30M 15M 0M 15M

RAMP UP

ECO- Land Platform

entrance square Wetland terrain

Educative approach Biomedicine systems

LIVING MACHINE AND PARK

Playground entrance square

1-1 section playground recreational activities Garden

PARK FUNCTION

Pocket wetlands Zero energy use, Solar power usage outdoor shading platform

LIVING MACHINE TOWER

Ecological educational house restaurant, cafĂŠ, bars.

Roof playground

Agriculture Land Platform

2-2 section 2 horizontal and vertical sections to present the difference between the tack layers and plaza layers supported from the LMWT.

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Water detention box on pocket wetlands in each layers to mitigate grey water and collect in the living machine tank to infiltrate and then transform as recycling water that are appropriately purified without the use of chemicals and sustainable low cost.

TOTAL DOMESTIC WATER USAGE: 439 MILLION GAL/YEAR (1,662 million liters/yr) PROJECTED D. WATER USAGE: 221 MILLION GAL/YEAR (840 million liters/year) POTABLE WATER:

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SOURCES

NON-POTABLE WATER:

85 MILLION GAL/YEAR (321 million liters/year) captured from 39 roofs, which is 3/4 of total potable water need.

2 MILLION GAL/YEAR (8 million liters/year) captured in reservoirs.

104 MILLION GAL/YEAR (394 million liters/year) from living machines

greywater inlet pipe living machine column visible treatment process

water detention box NON-POTABLE WATER OUT

Inside the LMWT, a great educational platform to show the process of water recycling. It would offer a rich wildlife habitat, excellent sustainable water supply and the various spaces for the communities with both function and have a fun.

WATER GROWING CREATING WATER LINKAGE

HABITAT EXCHANGE

LANDSCAPE VALUE