Print Email Facebook Twitter Water Purification: A (Re)Planned Water Infrastructure Title Water Purification: A (Re)Planned Water Infrastructure Author Ren, Peiwen (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Smidihen, Hrvoje (mentor) Bergsma, Arie (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Date 2018-07-09 Abstract Water has played a vital role in Dutch life. Nearly one-third of the country lies below mean sea level and more than half of territory would be submerged if the delta worksdon’t exist.The mainland also contains abundant resource of water: 17% of territory is water area. You may thinkthe watershortage is a joke for a country like Netherlands. However,it will become reality in the near future. Our everyday lives are dependent on water and we use it for a wide variety of purposes, such as drinking, irrigation, and manufacture. For a society that thrives to be sustainable,we facemanychallengestocontrol the water consumption.In addition, increasing numbers and densities of people will be living in urban areas in Netherlands. Yet how do we ensure Netherlands a sufficient supply of fresh water regarding water salinization of southern Netherlands and water pollution from German through river Rhine? Meanwhile, traveling through the low lying landscape of Holland, you cannot escape the water sports. There are lakes and beaches everywhere, which make for excellent recreational activities. More intensified use of Nieuwe Meer could lead further pollution. It is time to rethink how to manage our water, update the water infrastructure and create plentiful opportunities for recreation.Considering the future problem of water pollution and water shortage, I plan to do the water purification to keep it clean. Also from the social-cultural sense water entertainment facilities are introduced to let people activate in this water factory. The water after purified will go to the local domestic supply. This design implies the ambition of a real treatise on the relation between technology, culture, and society. It is a chance for the future that water infrastructure should not only focus on economic value but also social-cultural implications. Subject WaterpurificationInfrastructure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e3f85924-a0f5-4402-a7d8-94f7e192df1d Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Peiwen Ren Files PDF B0_Poster.pdf 129.88 MB PDF p5_presentation.pdf 179.76 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e3f85924-a0f5-4402-a7d8-94f7e192df1d/datastream/OBJ1/view