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Modular glass geometries are shaped to redirect and capture direct solar irradiation, providing interior shading and diffuse daylight spatial conditions. Coupled with multi-barrier water treatment systems, SEWR effects tertiary-stage disinfection by inactivating pathogenic contaminants through solar pasteurization and solar water disinfection processes.
The SEWR system prototype presents a contextual exhibition of the water cycles in the built environment by thrusting water networks out of the ground, out of centralized basement-bound greywater systems, and into proximity with the spaces humans inhabit.
The Solar Enclosure for Water Reuse (SEWR) system is a stationary concentrating solar-driven hybrid system for enhancing point-of-use water safety and onsite greywater reclamation, while decreasing both primary energy consumption and solar heat gain that is associated with glazed building facades and mechanical systems.
Can we collect, purify and recycle water through solar building envelopes?
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Anna Dyson, Mandi Pretorius, Nick Novelli, Jason Vollen, Matt Gindlesparger, Jaehong Kim, Kristin Malone, Satoshi Kiyono, Inhyeong Jeon, Eric Ryberg
PLEA 2016 Los Angeles: Towards Regenerative Environments (2017)
Eli Lichter-Mark, Mohamed Aly Etman + Anna Dyson (2017)
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems Engineering Research Center (NEWT ERC)
Academic/National Labs: NEWT ERC: Rice University, Arizona State University, University of Texas at El Paso
Can we collect, purify and recycle water through solar building envelopes?
Renewable bio-based circular material economies in timber, post-agricultural by-products and plant-based bioremediation
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SEWR
SOLAR
ENCLOSURE
FOR WATER
REUSE
Anna Dyson, Mandi Pretorius, Nick Novelli, Jason Vollen, Matt Gindlesparger, Jaehong Kim, Kristin Malone, Satoshi Kiyono, Inhyeong Jeon, Eric Ryberg
Industry:
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems Engineering Research Center (NEWT ERC)
Academic/National Labs: NEWT ERC: Rice University, Arizona State University, University of Texas at El Paso
Nick Novelli, Justin Shultz + Anna Dyson (2015)
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD), Washington DC, April 2015. Society for Computer Simulation International (2015)
Mohamed Aly Etman, Nick Novelli, Justin Shultz, Kenton Phillips, Brandon Andow + Anna Dyson (2015)
Proceedings of the PLEA Conference. Bologna (2015)
Eli Lichter-Mark, Mohamed Aly Etman + Anna Dyson (2017)
PLEA 2016 Los Angeles: Towards Regenerative Environments (2017)
Anna Dyson, Jason Vollen, Mark Mistur, Peter Stark, Kristin Malone, Matt Gindlesparger (2015)
U.S. Patent No. 9090486B2
Modular glass geometries are shaped to redirect and capture direct solar irradiation, providing interior shading and diffuse daylight spatial conditions. Coupled with multi-barrier water treatment systems, SEWR effects tertiary-stage disinfection by inactivating pathogenic contaminants through solar pasteurization and solar water disinfection processes.
The SEWR system prototype presents a contextual exhibition of the water cycles in the built environment by thrusting water networks out of the ground, out of centralized basement-bound greywater systems, and into proximity with the spaces humans inhabit.
The Solar Enclosure for Water Reuse (SEWR) system is a stationary concentrating solar-driven hybrid system for enhancing point-of-use water safety and onsite greywater reclamation, while decreasing both primary energy consumption and solar heat gain that is associated with glazed building facades and mechanical systems.
