Aqua-purifier phyto-façade system

Aqua-purifier phyto-façade system: ‘Exploring the contribution of an active green façade in the purifying of MarineTerrein water’

Ndayizeye, Christophe (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architectural Engineering)

Lamers, E.L. (mentor)
van der Zaag, E.J. (graduation committee)
Armijos Moya, T.E. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Intecture

Project Gibraltar

2019-04-16

‘Phytoremediation is the use of plants and their associated microbes for environmental clean-up’(Pilon-Smits, 2005). It is a natural, passive and efficient way of cleaning contaminated soil, water, and air. Every year, there are reports of contamination of swimmers due to the contaminated canal water round the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. The goal of this research paper is to investigate the different technics of water phytoremediation susceptible to be used to passively and actively purify the Amsterdam canal water and determine their applicability on and around a building. The founding of this research will be used to develop a new type of green façade that can remedy to the major problem of water pollution around the MarineTerrein in Amsterdam.

Phytoremediation
Water pollutants
Constructed Wetlands
Helophyte Filters
Macrophytes Plants
Hydraulic Conductivity
Grey wastewater

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2019 Christophe Ndayizeye