El Espejismo
A community garden with an outdoor kitchen and self built water infrastructure that will create opportunities for social learning within the Huaycan community. Natalie Anderson Interior Design
Amanda Weimer Landscape Architecture
Earl Schrader Architecture
Introduction
El Espejismo
Where in the world?
South America
Peru Lima
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Where Lima?
Huaycan
Zone D
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Zone Q
Zone Z
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Site Location An large empty lot N of the Market
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Hyper Arid Desert;
less than 2� precipitation; yet, 98% humidity (in fog) Infrastructure for formal popluation is inadequate
intermittent tap water families commonly store bottle water or boil tap to use with food or drink
Existing Soil Rocky, compact, and impossible for gardening. Transporting Produce They get their vegetables from the Andes. Food accessibility is a growing problem in Peru.
Infrastructure not in Huaycan
over milllion lack access to safe drinking water and buy unclean water from trucks (10 x cost of water of those on infrastructure) many weekly health clinic vists for many families #1 cause of child mortality in Peru
Cooking Toxic smoke kills nearly 2 million people per year, mostly women and children Hunger Family in informal settlements lack access to nutritional meals Food accessibility is a growing problem in Peru.
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Precedent In Lima, Peru
Bio Intensive Composting
The Paradigm Shift Project: From the Earth to the Pot
Compost allows soil to retain more moisture. A close spacing of plants allows leaves to shade soil creates a microclimate that decreases water consumption.
Mission: To raise global awareness on issues of sustainable development, social and environment justice. Established in 2008 to address a missing niche in the non-profit sector of international development: connecting people globally to local projects. Key Issues: Urban agriculture, nutrition, food security, poverty, urban development, water, cpmmunity gardens NGOs involved in the Project: Asociacion Familias En Accion, EcoCiudad, IDMA, Instituto de Investigacion Nutricional, IPES, Urban Harvest
Mature Immature Mature Immature Leave, Twigs Introduction
45% mature 45% immature Both components contribute to the process of decomposition and the humus formation that make the compost organic and valuable.
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HOTOS: Fog Catchers Harvest Air's Water in Arid Places
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July 9, 2009--When dense fog sweeps in from the Pacific Ocean, special nets on a hillside near SHARE Lima, Peru, catch the moisture and provide Digg precious water to an area that gets very little StumbleUpon rainfall--about half an inch (1.5 centimeters) a year. Reddit
Since 2006 the nets--built by German conservationists Kai Tiedemann and Anne Lummerich--have helped provide the village of Bellavista, 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Lima, with hundreds of gallons of water each day during the foggy winter months of June to November.
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The nets stand perpendicular to the prevailing wind, which blows fog into the coarse, woven plastic mesh. From there, drops of fog-water fall into gutters that carry the water to collection tanks.
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colorful hillsides exist
PHOTOS: Fog Catchers Harvest Air's Water in Arid Places
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RELATED STORIES About Peru Chilean Fog-Catchers Beetle's Shell Offers Clues to Harvesting Water in the Desert Text: Fog Catchers Bring Water to Parched Villages
—Photograph by Anne Lummerich
Grey Water Reuse
Phase One
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imagined
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Phase One
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Water Cleaning
Market Plant List
Ground Construction
How it works
water source (trucked- /fog-) transformable passive (gravity, solar) materials (most pre-owned)
2. evaporation cleans
1. fill grey water -- auto fills pools
3. condensation -- drains to cistern
NOTE: Sun & Equator are N Roof Top Construction
gutters between rebar brick store as pool frame brick store & water=tarp weight rebar store as tent frame mylar as tent
Phase Two
Quinoa
Lucuma
Yucca
Amaranth
Sweet Potato
Purple Corn
White Potato
Yellow Corn
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Phase Two
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Community Plant List Asperagus
Sweet Potato
Tomato
White Potato
Coca
Lucuma
Quinoa
Amaranth
Yucca
Purple Corn
Phase Three
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Phase Three
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