BMDesign's Concave Roofs Offer a Solution to Water Scarcity in Iran
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
Iranian based office BMDesign envisions concave roofs which offer a solution to water scarcity in Iran.
Source: designboom
More than half of Iran has an arid climate and environment, each year expanding more and more. Big lakes like Lake Urmia have shrunk to a fraction of their size, gradually disappearing, or Zayandehrud – the largest river of the Iranian plateau – has parched and left a metropolitan city like Isfahan encountering serious consequences. Consequences like thousands of farmers losing their jobs or the city itself on the brink of rationing drinking water.
Iranian based office BMDesign offers a double solution to this matter. Part of it is to combat global warming and reduce the overall carbon footprint, while another part is to pursue other sustainable water resources.
Resources like rainwater, even though there is a serious doubt about the feasibility of a RWH system in the region.
The argument is that the small amount of rainfall does not flow off the roof, thus it cannot harvest a tangible amount before it evaporates.
The design team has worked on the design, detailing and technique for harvesting rain in the Iranian plateau and similar environments with precipitation less than 1/3 of world average and evaporation more than 3 times world average.
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