Ya Yi LIN

Naturally

Lighting

Sewage Treatment

The Institute of research on the Thames's vulnerabilities

This is a analysis of Water as a notion in a way we might not have been thinking of.

What i am trying to seek with these images is an awareness of the problems and issues asociated to the Thames sewage and litter problem.

Public naivity over environmental issues right infront of their nose is a big problem in most countries around the world, even though many environmental teams exist to consistently attempt to confront the problem. The river Thames once was one of the cleanest rivers in the world, however the disregard to littering has lead to a river full of floating plastic. The extent of this has even lead to the opening of a mudlark collection in the London museum full of interesting finds in the river. Now there is concern over discharges into the river of untreated sewage which is another blow to the public perception that the Thames is cleaner than it has been for centuries.

Solutions to overcome this problem have been radical, from an artist protesting by throwing litter into the river, to the creation of cages called passive debris collectors that while bob down the river publicly express the fact that they "eat the rubbish", to the proposal of a 2 billion pound SUPER SEWER to clean up the thames and prevent overflowing at the upcoming olympics.

Does it take someone to use the media while publicly LITTERING for people actually to cause a fuss over polluting the thames??

Does it take something like the Olympics to confront the fact that the Thames is full of sewage??

Architecture is not always only about building. It can be a solution to an environmental problem, and it can also be a form of raising public awareness.

Can architecture aide in this help to clean up the thames??? Can a permanent bridge over the thames be a media billboard of warning and information.

Recicled Water Containers Structure / Diego Delgado-Elias

This is the latest exercises on how to attach the chosen component and the search of the lightest structure that will develop better on the water, first a serious of structural ribs that float by the bottles attached to different sides of it. And the second is a model analysis that proves that the component attached tangential as "packing" and folded in a cylindrical way can be self structured.