SALINETORIUM

Turning Oil Rigs into Salt Havens

Salinetorium is a museum park and factory island that uses both reverse osmosis and thermal desalination to self sustain itself and provide a space for learning about the life cycle potentials of salt, the importance fo water, and the importance of renewable versus non renewable energy (the history behind the oil rig). We saw potential in the resulting brine and salt from desalination to be used to create materials and resources that slowly turn the rig into a human habitat and later an extension of the proximate water. Desalination is the process of turning sea water into potable water. Key to this process is reverse osmosis, which involves forcing water through a membrane at high pressure, so salts are removed from the water. The salt in desalination brine - the residual solution from the desalination process - originates from the sea, and the discharge returns it to the source, often times in irresponsible and non sustainable ways. `

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