Site Ecology

The house is around lakefronts, canals, rail lines, and highways the Special No. 9 House was developed away from the heart of a city

There is one bus line connection the house to the closest city

The house is designed to retain water and has a cistern full of grey water

One of the project’s focuses is to reconstruct a neighborhood so that it is more resistant to climate

As infrastructure is rebuilt, more busses will link the community to cities

The main goal of this project is to construct a stronger community that is more green and more resistant to climate

Water Resources

This house uses low flow toilets and showerheads that use less than 2.2 gallon per minute

Rain water is collected and used in the house

The building is made to use gray water which is water that was use in baths, sinks, washing machines, and utensils

The house reuses gray water and waste water

The house is capable of retaining 62% of precipitation from rain. Usually about 600 gallons.

Captured water can be irrigated to the trellis, a garden that also shades the house in the summer, through a pump system

Although rain water is cannot be used inside the house yet, the house has a cistern, a holding tank for water, where gray water is stored for when it can be used inside the house later