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Watercycle Pavilion
Greenwich, London
Sam Hecht, IDEO
Cascading Water Exhibit Illustrates
Innovative Technology
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The Watercycle Pavilion is an
exhibition building that demonstrates the central idea behind
water recycling at the Millenium Dome. The Dome’s water
treatment plant, the first in-building program of its kind
in England, collects reclaimed water supplied by three streams,
rainwater from the dome’s roof, water recycled from washbasins,
and a bore-hole drilled into the ground; cleans the water
within planted reed-beds; filters it at the on-site treatment
plant; then pumps it back into the dome complex to service
its washrooms. The project’s success has led to adoption
of a similar program at the new headquarters building of Thames
Water in Reading, and toThames Water selling the technology
around the world.
To maximize clarity and visibility, the
pavilion roof, walls, and structure are made entirely of glass.
Shower heads spray "rain" from above onto the glass
roof so that water covers the building, cascading down the
glass wall into a pool where it is pumped back and recycled.
Visitors walk under this rain within a glass tunnel-like section
where seven rotating panels explain the dome’s watercycle
process in detail. On one side of each panel is a text-filled
mirror that rotates and reflects the treatment plant inside.
The reverse side displays photographs of places around the
dome where the cycle is being implemented.
Formal name
of building:
Watercycle Pavilion
Location:
Greenwich, London
Gross square
footage:
53 ft. x 41 ft.
Total construction
cost:
$375,000
Client:
Thames Water
Architect's
firm:
Sam Hecht, IDEO
Whitebear Yard
144a Clerkenwell Road
London EC1R 5DF
Tel: 0207 713 2600
Fax: 0207 713 2665
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