The Urban Wetland Pissoir: A Functional Art for Raising Awareness of Infrastructure Challenges in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Irina CHAKRABORTY , Puthea KHON , Taber HAND
Landsc. Archit. Front. ›› 2015, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (2) : 120 -129.
Natural waste recycling processes are often out of sight and out of mind of the general public, especially as they relate to the treatment of human waste. Wetlands Work!, a social enterprise① based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, designed the Urban Wetland Pissoir (UWP) to encourage awareness of natural waste degradation processes, promote low-tech ideas for treatment of urban waste flows, and link function to aesthetics. The UWP was set up during Phnom Penh’s Our City Festival 2012, as a functioning prototype of a self-contained urine treatment system. A simple private cubicle made of bamboo and thatch is used by one individual at a time. The urine is conducted into an adjacent see-through pool, filled with beautiful local wetland plant species that use it as a nutrient. The message for users: urbanization is not a separation from nature’s ecological functional and aesthetic services.
Constructed Wetland / Urban Sanitation / Urine Sanitation / Wetland Education / Pissoir
Higher Education Press
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