BUILDING ENVELOPE MEMBER WITH INTERNAL WATER RESERVOIR

摘要

Buildings which include rudimentary plumbing can be transported as a set of disassembled modular parts and then assembled on site. The assembled building includes a water reservoir in the roof and a sewage reservoir in the base, so as to enable gravity-based water supply and sewage disposal in the absence of traditional plumbing and sewage infrastructure. Building envelope elements having internal reservoirs, and methods for constructing such building envelope elements are also described.

主权项

1. A building, comprising:
a roof having at least one internal water reservoir for storing water; the roof having at least one externally accessible reservoir fill aperture communicating with the at least one internal water reservoir for filling the at least one internal water reservoir; the roof having at least one reservoir supply aperture communicating with the at least one internal water reservoir for drawing water from the at least one internal water reservoir; the roof being secured to a plurality of outer walls supporting the roof; and the outer walls secured to a base supporting the outer walls.