The concept behind a memorial pet columbarium at 1949 Se Division was to design a multi function space that provided civic and environmental value to the community while doing something positive to relieve the contamination on site.
The shrubbery and trees provide food for birds, and butterflies in addition to detoxifying the soil. The Bio-swale utilizes an under-developed resource in the rainwater runoff which will be used to create a memorial pond, water the sites vegetation, and educate the public about the practicality of living an environmentally sound lifestyle.
The pathways will be covered with recycled tire flooring to reduce erosion of the soil. Eco-roofs will shade the memorial benches, channel water into the bio-swale, and provide additional space for plants intended to encourage butterflies, which are a significant pollinator crucial to local agriculture.
The crystalline solar panels on the columbarium will provide power to the site and return unused power back to the grid. Revenue to pay for care taking could be generated from niche sales.
My site proposal has a "living machine®", cleaning wastewater into reusable water, which even though is cleaner than tap water, can't be drank for legal reasons, but can be reused as toilet water, or for irrigation.
The concept also contains several solar panels and two small wind turbines, to offset some coal power, and power the "living machine" itself.
There would be open touring of the facility and
information about the site, as well as general info about eco-friendly power and the
history and practice of "living machines".
A small water bottling facility will exist on the east property line. The walls will be constructed of mud-filled tires.
The roof will support bamboo and smaller reeds which will also fill the surrounding lot. Plants are able to naturally filter and purify human waste.
Directing the neighborhood's sewage underground to this site will odorlessly purify the effluent, resulting in water many times cleaner than chemically-treated water.
The bamboo will additionally create oxygen through conversion of carbon dioxide and, when harvested, provide a sustainable flooring product. Solar panels along the north property line will power the minimal needs of the bottling facility and provide electricity to the neighborhood as well.
1. A 2460sf stormwater pond holding approximately 19K gallons of water for wildlife
2. Cob Gazebo w/ an eco roof as a community space.
3. Recycled Rubber Tire Playground
4. Rainwater Harvesting System with a cister of 2800 galons of water.
5. Bioswale stream flowing thru garden
6.Bridges as design features across swale
8. Indigenous Trees planted along the perimeter of the park including Willow and Black Hawthorne. 35 trees will store 48 lbs/tree for a total of 1680lbs of carbon annually.
My project is intended to serve the community by providing
an educational
and functional garden community. The idea is to not only provide a peaceful place
for this SE Portland neighborhood, but to make it a bit more "Green" too.
This plot of land can be used to offset waste from
neighboring houses
and using the recycled waste water to maintain the plants within its
borders. It also would use collected rainwater to serve the same person.
full of living masterpieces, while using recycled resources to do so.
Earthship Neighborhood Center
The structural walls are made of tires, the south face captures solar energy, greywater is food for plants, rainwater is collected and used, and waste is solar composted.
This meeting and gathering space is for the neighborhood, tours and other special events and classes.
Living Systems
Solar panels at 29K btus per panel on a sunny day, and 19K on a cloudy day. For a price of $150-160.
On this lot you would be able to fit 92 trees at a 10 x 10 spacing. Over a 50 year lifetime, EACH TREE generates $31,250 worth of oxygen, provides $62K worth of air pollution control, recycles $37,500 worth of water and controls $31,250 of soil erosion.
Wind energy, called the Whisper could produce anywhere between 900/28 (watts/mph) to 3200/27.
A Living Machine could take up half the lot 3700-4800 sf leaving half the area for energy or water.
Living Systems are not just good for the earth, but also the community. not giving off order -- its anywhere from a place for people to gather and be educated, to saving money and using fewer chemicals to clean the water.
Wastewater Ecology Demonstration
Photovoltaic panels provide enough power for the electric pumps.
Public ecology toilets
