La Primavera Flotante

The Floating Spring

The Floating Spring IQUITOS

The capital city of the Maynas Province and Loreto Region, and home of our prospective clients: the residents of Claverito. Locationally positioned where the ever-growing oil industry along with an accumulating amount of trash plague the bordering water of the Amazon river, the call for a One Health mindset could not be more apparent. Many communities, both amphibious and not struggle with this lack of access to potable water but nowhere is it felt more than in the floating slums that border the city itself. The pressing question then becomes, how do we change this?

WHICH ASPECTS OF HUMAN HEALTH ARE ADDRESSED?

-Any access to clean water is a highly valuable resource with numerous positive health effects

-Parasites such as Whipworm, Tapeworm, and Giardia intestinalis are highly prevalent and are commonly contracted through access to contaminated water

-The design caters to the fluid and moving existence of the rest of the community with easy means of transportation

-With a shortened trip needed to collect water, different community members have more time to tend to other responsibilities

-With health risks such as chronic diahrea plaguing the community, the new access to cleaner water aims to better the health situation for everyone

-The materials used in the design are intended to be easily accessible for the community of Claverito, therefore, making the construction a realistic possibility

BUCKET FILTER

HORIZONTAL SUPPORT SLATS

VERTICAL TOWER BEAMS

TRANSFER HOSE

WATER COLLECTION JUG

WATER SPICKET

WATER PUMP

WATER PUMP MOUNT

CLEAN WATER/ DRINKING WATER

LACK OF STANDING WATER (MOSQUITOS)

THE FLOATING SPRING

SEPERATED FROM HUMAN HOUSING

ABILITY TO USE RIVER AND RAIN

INCOME (FROM LEFT OVER WATER)

SUPPORTED PLATFORM

HUMAN HEALTH

ECOLOGICAL HEALTH

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

TOWER FOOTPRINT STABILIZERS

STANDING DECK

FLOATATION BINS

The Design

With floating platform, tower support, water collection, bucket filter, and water pump elements present within this design the detail can’t be questioned. What can and should be questioned however is the effectiveness of the design itself. As separate elements, the design would be incomplete with only fragments of what is needed by the community. It’s not until you bring them all together and position them within the community that their impact would be free to grow.

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