An Innovative System for Reuse of Rain-water

This contribution illustrates the teaching experience carried out during the course in "Technological Planning of Sanitation-Environmental Systems" (academic year 2008-09; lecturer: Prof. Ing. Rossella Franchino) on the degree course in New Construction Quality and Contexts at the faculty of Architecture of Seconda Università di Napoli. The aim of this experiment was the recovery of rainwater from a building and its reuse. The building was considered the central element in the water-use cycle as we examined the rainwater collection system, the treatment of the rainwater, its storage and finally its distribution for reuse. Since any intervention within a territory gives great importance to the correct environmental design of a water-supply network, examining the network as a whole, instead of looking at its single elements, provides a more general overview, allowing us to make recommendations as to the re-use of this resource. Water is an extremely valuable resource and therefore the overriding aim of the entire cycle of use must be how to save and to recycle it whenever possible