Self-sufficiency for the tiny house: waste water treatment and facade greening
- Vagabundo Living
- 2. Jan. 2023
- 2 Min. Lesezeit
Today we would like to share a guest contribution from the sustainability consultancy Respira with you. First of all, this is not meant to be an advertisement, rather we want to highlight the great work and investment in our future by Gianluca and Julian.
Tiny houses and their owners are mostly resource-efficient, circular-minded minimalists. According to a study by Livee/Tiny House Association, 80 percent of the German single households surveyed who are planning a construction project by 2022 are interested in alternative forms of living. Of these, 13% are interested in living in a TinyHouse, which results in around 58,000 Tiny House dreamers. Ascending trend.
In line with this, respira is developing façade modules to clean your waste water on site and to enable a second cycle of use, e.g. for irrigation. Make new things out of garbage, with benefits: the planted modules are urban habitats for insects, cool the environment and the TinyHouse itself, save fresh water, reduce noise and fine dust, and are simply beautiful to look at.
Why waste water treatment? According to forecasts, water-blessed Germany is also becoming drier, droughts are becoming more likely, soil was often too dry in months that were actually rainy, the groundwater level could sink, which will increase the pressure on our fresh water source.
Why Habitats? Species extinction and loss of biodiversity are global problems. Due to the sealing in the growing urban centers, increasingly important living space that needs to be preserved is disappearing.
Why cooling? We sweat to cool ourselves. Plants also sweat, or evapotranspirate, which cools the immediate environment. And unfortunately we are well on the way to having to deal with a temperature increase of 2-3°C.
More information is available at respira.earth