Sabina Nieto and Berta Lázaro Collaboration

Our interest in joining the course for the EnormousPlasticRainFlower is one of open documentation. We may or may not be in the position this semester to integrate the design research with a high school program; however, we would at the least be interested in condensing and compiling research along the way--to create a "How to" document.

Our proposal is to archive the studio's process documentation from this recycled rainwater catchment project and create a document that can be shared for further reproductions of such a worthwhile endeavor.

Our secondary idea, after sharing this project with the YES high school of Oakland, would be to share this research with Architecture for Humanity. From the ground up, PlasticFlowerCisterns could sprout around town, with a manual of sorts guiding the way.

We will be posting ideas and other projects on How-to Documentation, soon

Thank you all!

PS: I just wanted to share some pictures of recycled architecture so that the email is not that boring ;)
I got the info from here. It´s a summer music Festival in South Spain FIB Benicassim, that has an art program on the side. This was on the 2004 Edition.

the tube...

it's flexible!

basic construction

We are going to have to transfer water from one column to another at some point, and maybe this can be a way to do that. The tube is made from the tops of coke bottles with fishing wire looped through to keep them together. As long as the bottom piece is anchored, all of the pieces will sit securely in the one below it. The tube is easy to construct, uses a part of the bottle that wasn't doing much in the stacking schemes, and most importantly, it's flexible. This means that we can potentially transfer water to columns that are not immediately adjacent to each other . . . I'm not quite sure what the advantage of that may be, but my intuition tells me there is an advantage in there somewhere.

Assemble

... by Fabrication team

Taping

... by Fabrication team

Filter + storage : system

...by Fabrication team

Using other bottles

...by Fabrication team

2nd stage : Proliferation

can grow up and be multiplied

...by Fabrication team