Clean water and social space

摘要

The WaterHall project is a water pump, collection and filtration system which also doubles as a community hall in a remote village on the outskirts of Battambang. With foundations and main structure of in-situ concrete and characterful walls of 'hit and miss' brickwork, the design is by young Hong Kong firm OOA Architects, who worked on voluntary charity projects for the village while studying at Hong Kong University. It was then that they identified the village's need for a reliable, clean, free source of water that dispensed with people's reliance on buying bottled water from private companies - as well as a new meeting house.