The Lake House
- Discipline
- Architecture
- Semester
- Spring 2022
- Course
- Architectural Design VI
- Description
- The Lake House: a safe haven helping all of Chicago thrive through the power of plants. Housing different programmatic lakes (including but not limited to markets, lazy rivers, restaurants, and recreational fishing), The Lake House is a design in which the recycling and filtering of rainwater, and the burning of plant-waste work together to create free drinking water for residents of Chicago. Chicago is one of the most segregated cities, and low-income and black communities pay far more for water than the affluent white communities. The Lake House also is fully run on aquaponic farming, which uses 95% less water than traditional farming. The design hopes to spark change in treating access to water as a human right, not a privilege.