For the final project of a collaborative design class, I teamed up with a group that had designed a floating chicken coop for the midterm. For the final, we expanded on that concept and proposed a floating community center (one of the primary citizen requests), with floating farms to make use of compost from all that chicken poop. We also had hand washing stations that used collected rain water, which I proposed piping under the river as a way to culturally and literally warm it. There is a cultural aversion to drinking rainwater, as all bad things come from the sky, and all good things from the river. Piping the rain below the water, without letting the clean water actually contact the highly contaminated river, would be a way of acknowledging the cultural heritage of the large indigenous population, while also addressing a primary vector for disease.
