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2015
PLUG-IN WATER FILTER
Floating Urban Intervention

  • Lagos, Nigeria • Cornell University • Supervisors: Kunlé Adeyemi + Suzanne Lettieri

  • This floating rainwater harvesting system - located in Makoko,
  • a predominantly water-based community in the city - uses existing
  • infrastructures to collect, filter, store, and re-distribute potable water.
  • The water is collected from the roofs with gutters, connected to a
  • piping system which brings water to a filtration zone.  At an urban
  • scale, one water filter provides potable water 137 people, allowing for
  • maximum effect in community betterment with a minimally invasive
  • intervention. The plug-in water filters are located in void-like plaza
  • conditions in Makoko, a predominantly water-based community
  • in Lagos. The orientation of the base varies according to household
  • configurations, providing a congestion-free zone of activity.



fig.1 Filtration components

fig.2 Open areas, Makoko
fig.3 Direction of circulation, Makoko
fig.4 Gutter aggregation, Makoko
fig.6 Section
fig.7 Plan



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