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A self-cyclable building catches the monsoon, uses it, and returns it. Roofs and ground are shaped to harvest rain into storage and recharge. Greywater is filtered through planted beds and sent back to gardens and flushing.
Organic waste is composted into soil; solar gain is captured on the roof. Each loop that closes on site is a smaller demand on the river, the grid and the municipal pipe.
It is the principle CHAYP is named for - a habitat that sustains itself - and it is, in the end, simply good housekeeping at the scale of a building.
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