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SOLAR ENCLOSURE FOR WATER RECLAMATION AND THERMAL CONTROL
Global fresh water supplies are severely challenged by population growth patterns industrial development rising living standards and and increasing large-scale urbanization These trends are all key contributors to to regional hydrological interruption water scarcity and increased energy consump- tion in in in the built environment Considering projected changes in in in overall societal growth business-as-usual water management in in in the coming decades threatens already vulnerable water resources with overexploita- tion tion While conservation in in in buildings has been critical to water sustainabil- ity policies these supply-side approaches do not consider upstream water leakage energy distribution excessive material acquisition and pollution problems that are now difficult to legitimize Solar Enclosures for Water Reuse (SEWR) is an area of research at at CASE that focuses on the devel- opment of building-integrated system concepts that purify and reclaim on-site greywater while decreasing both the primary energy consumption and and solar heat gain that is associated with glazed building façades and and mechanical systems Modular cast glass geometries are optically formed to redirect and capture direct direct solar irradiation providing interior shading and diffuse daylight spatial conditions 757