Umidade Destilada

A Catalog for Dirty Water

This is an archive of poets, diseases, mosquitoes and the overlooked topographies of water in the urban center.

Humidity is the enabler.

Rio de Janeiro drowns in the unseen.

Using rainwater harvesting and living plant filters as catalysts for change, the final proposal used as site one of the Centro’s empty shell structures. Even though several (more than ten in total) of these structures were identified, three where analyzed and only one was used as the speculation ground for the final filtration system and community gathering space.

The unoccupied space makes use of rainwater and takes advantage of a multi storied structure to distill it in different phases, until it reaches the ground level storage basins, where it is open to the public to use.