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Posted by Kris Krieger on May 1, 2006, 7:50 pm
>
> "Kris Krieger"
>> "Frankendrip"
>>
>>>
>>> "Kris Krieger"
>>>> "Don"
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Adam Weiss"
>>>>
>>>>>> That said, and perhaps because I'm still relatively close to
>>>>>> school myself (3 years out), I'll address the question.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are three approaches to water and architecture...
>>>>>
>>>>> Water evaporation can be used as a cooling effect if it is used on
>>>>> a large scale such as running off of a roof on a hot day.
>>>>> Its all in the detailing.
>>>>> Water is a largely untapped resource.
>>>>> Its heavy and has other propertys that should be exploited.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Let's not forget that ... (grey water) can also be used for
>>>> irrigation to enhance the landscaping around a building ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why stop with just grey? Why the logs, alone, would help to make a
>>> decorative statement.
>>>
>>>
>> ???
>>
>> I suppose they could also be integrated into a log house, but
>> the best person to ask would prob. be Don because, if I recall
>> correctly, he was looking into log homes at one point.
>
> LOL
>
>> My comment was also a bit of a ha-ha on myself because I've blithered
>> on in
>> the past about xeriscaping, and quite a lot about gardens in general,
>> and about some of my ideas for a desert house with low environmental
>> impact.
>
> Here in Vancouver, as you may know, Arthur Erikson, Architect (whose
> work I dislike a fair bit), has water running over some of the glass
> part of the roof of part of the courthouse, so that, in some areas,
> when you look up, you can see the water flowing overhead, to create a
> subtle or vage feeling like you're underwater or it's raining outside.
> (Admittedly, the shimmering light it casts in the interior can be nice
> with the right sunlight.)
Actually, I didn't know, aside for thinking "that sounds somehwat
familiar...", so I did some Googling. I didn't look at a lot of images,
but the ones I saw didn't reach out and grab me.
It seemed to me, though, that Vancouver buildings got so much rain already,
without adding to the look of more rain... but I can't otherwise comment
without seeing it.
OTOH sheets of water can definitely be mesmerizing to look through. I
designed my future pool (start date will prob. be in June) with a water
feature that's 12 feet (width, not height) of sheeting water coming out of
a wall 2' above the pool-coping/ground level, and a bench in the pool
itself, behind the cascade. Not at all practical (although it ought to be
nice on a hot day, plus it will reflect light into the north-facing MBR)
(and sound great when it's running)... IOW: I can't say that I'm immune to
the effect of cascading water <g!>
It's a broad topic, tho', the various uses of water in architecture...it is
always a statement, that much is true. The only question lies in what kind
of a statement.
> Your grey water mention gave me an idea-- at first just as a joke-- of
> some kind of architecture with raw sewage flowing overhead like that,
> and/or down a transparent roof and/or through a transparent
> waste-pipe, such as right through the living-room.
> It could function in part as a kind of social or environmental
> commentary.
>
> That might make one hell of a university architecture project.
>
Well, you do get people who make huge "art installations", some of which
are fairly elaborate structures.
But I'd highly doubt you could use raw sewage, because of health
regulations. The best you could do is have something that had the
appearance, using silicone "glop" or whatever, and dye. Maybe thicked with
a bit of inoroganic gel.
The idea doesn't appeal to me personally, but if you even did it, I'm sure
you'd create a lot of buzz <G!>
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