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