Excretal architecture : prototypical and productive urban waste forms

Excretal Architecture comes equipped with a set of design parameters sufficient to grow a regenerative city, while focusing on biomass accumulation as a key program. These structures are scalable and adaptable to any site, but are designed for cities that face ramifications of the industrial eras in particular - mainly toxic contamination in water and soil. The main purpose of these forms is to produce resources from waste through remediation and biodegradation process with the initial premise that soil and water are two of earth's most valuable resources, which provide basic needs for humans. These structures have specific dry and wet program that incorporate low energy strategies by emulating natural cycles found in forests and in permacultural farming practices. Human excreta is collected, composted and used to form material for new ground. Water is collected, filtered, and deposited into its landscape as irrigation after usage using a greywater system. The city becomes regenerative through these biomass accumulation processes maintained by the architecture itself and participating inhabitants or visitors.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Kim, Nancy (Nancy Hyun Mi)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Joel Lamere.

• Architecture.

Statement dc:rights

• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79174

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/79174