We live in a rainforest. The rainfall in False Creek is 1450 mm. There is enough rainfall to capture village water from rooftops. Solar aquatics is a biological sewage treatment system. In four days, raw sewage is transformed by bacteria, plant and animal activity in a controlled swamp environment into clean water.
Water flowing through the village provides a metaphor for life.
Water provides an aesthetic quality visually, auditorially and texturally and is a context for contemplation and relaxation. 9. warmth, energy VillageQuest can collect solar heat and excess heat generated from village activities and store the heat undergroup using heat exchanger technology. There is enough geothermal heat under a typical house lot to heat 10 houses. Geothermal energy is used by pumping heat stored in land mass into buildings. Since energy is used only to pump stored heat it is much more efficient.