Eco dream plans

 Payaka urban development
I have had many ideas for the ecobuilding and reform project of Payaka, in northern Thailand. So while we keep up with the demolition + construction here in Japan, I have started doing some simple sketches, just to get ready and find an effective way of kindly suggesting this ideas to the one who is going to take the decisions... well we'll see!
There are good chances that this project is going to bloom and be really awesome! Indeed it is already for all the people involved in it...



This first one is just about natural passive lights, describing some rough details of a light pipe that I would like to insert in a precise spot, under the roof, passing through one room on the first floor and reach for a very dark area in the ground floor. This would be a very useful feature.



This second sketch is a selection of three other ideas, very well supported by a huge number of successful applications around the world: it's about (clockwise from the top left corner)

• grey water filtering system (with living roots, settling tanks and eventually some small fresh water pond)
• passive air circulating system (inserting a series of pipes that funnel air out from the top of the rooms and let it out of the roof, through an insulated box containing the end part of the pipe, that gets heated up in the sun and drags out air by convection)
• anaerobic compost digester (air tight, odor less tank connected to some sort of expandable vessel -car inner tubes are perfect- to contain the gas produced during the decomposition of the feed stock inserted and later burn it in a methane gas stove)

Actually on top of the list there is a "simple" solar hot water system, that in terms of efficiency it would be amazing in Thailand, delivering free hot water to the hot-tub and the showers. You don't get to see many of these devices in Thailand and I wonder why: setting up something like this, in the middle of town... it would be an amazing statement and call lots of attention for sure! But wait until we start talking about stoves ;)
Will all this be accepted and funded?...
Cross your fingers and please send your positive vibe or even better... c'mon and help out making it happen! Either way it's going to be fun. Keep checking it up ;)