With only a few week left before Rittenhouse 1706 opens its doors to the new residents, attention has moved to the outside of the building. Its time to construct the pond for the garden area.

Picture 1 – This the pond depression which was poured over a year ago, which is also the roof top of the State of the Art parking garage for Rittenhouse 1706

Pond Depression

Forms for Garden Walls

"The Shoe Box"

Back of filter wall - ready for plumbling

North Pond sleeve for bottom drain

Inside the "Shoe Box"

Picture 7 – Overview of the garden area

Garden Area

View of Rittenhouse 1706 from the garden

East Side Elevation

 

South and East Elevations

Due to the very small working room and importance of this project, we have decided to build an identical replica of the filtration system here on the farm to ensure that the insulation in Philadelphia goes flawlessly.
 
The tanks in the greenhouse where the trial filter is being installed are elevated. This means a deck with the same foot print (ft6inX4ft6in) as the filter room in Philadelphia had to be built. This deck will hold all the filter components to replicate the installation of the Philadelphia filter system.
   

In the upcoming weeks we will be installing a filtration system in the most luxurious new condo development in center city Philadelphia, Rittenhouse 1706.

The filtration will be placed on a 3000 gallon pond that is being constructed outside the main lobby in the residents’ garden.
Due to space constraints in the city, the architect for the total project could only have a filter room with an internal foot print of 7ft6in long X 4ft6in wide with a height of 5ft10in ceiling.

Filter system requirements: Low Maintenance/ High efficiency/ Compact in size

We have decided to base this filtration system on a gravity fed sieve for the mechanical filtration to remove all large particles; uneaten food, leaf debris. Following the mechanical filtration will be a pump fed polygeyser bead filter.

Due to the very restricted working room and the importance of this project, we have decided to build an identical replica of the filtration system that going to be installed at Rittenhouse 1706, here on the farm.