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Rainwater harvesting facade for Kennedy building
A rainwater harvesting system which utilizes building facade instead of roof collection was developed for reuse on-site. This system uses the circular transparent tube with a hole to collect the rainwater and to show the collecting process to the pedestrian and occupants. The developed facade was applied to the Kennedy buildings at UNCC.
Collection tank
Sanitation stage
Filtration system
Pump
1″ of rain x 1 sq. ft (facade) = 0.206 gallons (# roof: 0.623 gallons)
Average annual precipitation(Charlotte, NC) – rainfall : 41.63 inch
Rain harvesting facade area : 5511.12 ft²
(Facade area: 40 m * 8m * 4(E/W/S/N) * 0.4(WWR) = 512 m² = 5511.12 ft² )
Total rainwater harvesting potential (gallons):3,859,020.105 gallons
Generating Rain_harvesting facade using the rhino-python script
1. Script for making the randomized facade pattern
3. System details
2. Applying to the building facade
Detail image
4. Considerations
5. Python script and generating the randomized rain-harvesting facade
6. Applying to the kennedy building
modeling: rhino, Grasshopper / rendering :key-shot
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