Visual
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.