Greywater Recycling Bin

This was a group project I did together with Jake Roberts, Gibran Farrah and Olivia Comberti. It was entered in RSAs ‘Sandals’-competition 2007/2008, and we won a prize!

The design brief was to design something that could help a small village called Budikote (India). Our contribution was a greywater recycling basin, utilising excess water from various activities which is currently discarded.

The Basin is scalable to work in the home or for the whole village, depending on the time and money available. All the materials used, from the filter components (sand and charcoal) to the outer body (re-used oil drum) can be easily and inexpensively sourced, allowing the village to be self reliant and so removing the need for external funding.

For more reading and illustrations, visit:
http://www.rsadesigndirections.org/design-directions/2007-08/exh/artist/artist.php?artid=025