The structure is composed of adobe brick and compressed earth,
variably utilized dependent on structural need. Walls are finished in
burnished mud, and waterproof versions of all are achieved through the
addition of wood ash during the mixing process.

Fire setting and smoke chamber to channel heat inside of
interior architecture and seating to create warm adobe surfaces to support
muscular release and cellular healing

Water pumped and boiled may be routed to small individual
sitting baths. This water is only released into the larger system when it has
cooled to it’s natural temperature. If herbs or soap nuts are utilized in the
bathing system, this water is routed into greywater for trees, rather than
integrated back into the larger pools.  These small side pools are kept
warm from below, through the ondol heating system.

This wood stove draws style and technology from indigenous
Mexican in-home wood fires and russian stove heat distribution, tying in with
the ondol/hypocaust heating system. This stove supports a clay Olla situated
in the circular opening on the active surface. Fire here is connected to
architecture, heats relevant surfaces as well as the vessel situated on top.
This stove technology generates warm, heats water, and makes charcoal for the
filtration system.
Here, rainwater that has passed through the filtration stairs, and is diverted into an olla that can be placed on top of the stove fire to boil, killing bacterial pathogens and rendering the water potable. Medicinal plants from the edible forest can be added to produce a tea for drinking or a medicinal mixture to add to the hot bath. 

The impluvium roof collects
rainwater into a central pool or catchment chamber, with an overflow
mechanism connected to an underground cistern. The central pools of the
temple are fed directly by this rain collected via roof, among other sources.

A combination of open faced rills and piping, comprised of
bamboo pipes, rock ways and ceramic channels - allowing for targeted water
movement to specific pools, process and overflow into planted areas and
storage wells.
Targeted to trees in garden Water exposed to soap nuts or routed from the scrub area, or water overflow from the nutrient process in times of heavy rainfall are routed to trees that require more water and whose roots process greater toxicity that edible annuals 

Depending on the temple’s geographical situation and the
behaviors of it’s microclimate and watershed, various catchment systems may
be employed. Close access to a river could include a diversion system that
also generates power through kinetic energy. Catchment in a high elevation
forests might use fog nets, and   coast adjacent sites would focus on
desalination

A brick based burnished step-well area culminating in drainage
to a protected underground cistern.

Burying permeable clay pots in the center of plants that
require regular watering. Once filled with water, the pot slowly leeches
water into the surrounding soil as needed, with moisture tension allowing the
dirt to drawing from the walls of the vessel as needed. Lessens frequency of
watering and lowers water loss from surface evaporation and runoff, while
promoting deep watering and dense root growth.

When activated by human labor, this manual pump draws water
from the cisterna up into the  shower/scrub system, so that use of water
outside the pooled system is measured and felt, never used without
understanding of quantity.

The natural pool mimics the interspecies nutrient exchange and microbial environment of a naturally occurring body of water. The central pools of the temple complex transverse the interior space of the building and the exterior outdoor realm, inviting interspecies kin to drink and swim, in the interspecies peace tradition of the waterhole and the community tradition of group bathing. Skin from humans and animals insects and larvae are consumed by fish species, movement and gravity systems aerate the water, and aquatic plant species in layered edge lands of sand stone and soil absorb decomposing organic material and fish waste, cleaning the water and protecting a standing body from toxic monocultures and bacterial overgrowth This dynamic natural system has been mimicked in natural pools, bog gardens, aquaponics, Aztec Chinampas, South Asian water gardens, Chinese paddy fields, and the Fukuoka Method

This fountain uses only gravity to motivate its movement of
water. Fountain employed to increase oxygenation of water through cascade,
and provide interactive feature within pool.

Water release fixtures are achieved through natural renewable materials. A rain shower to slow the fall of pumped water in the rinse area is created by nesting pieces, cutting holes, and fashioning gate valves, from the bamboo itself, into a section of bamboo tube. 

The vermicompost trash can system supports worm abundance and
creates nutrient rich compost to support plantings in the edible food forest.
Non-meat edibles can be disposed of at the trash’s top, sifting downward as
they decompose, while the worms contained within eat upwards towards newer
material. The trash’s bottom can be removed, now replete with rich nutrient
dense soil that can be applied at the base of plants and trees that require
support.

This interior roof detail creates eaves and compartments, to
invite and encourage birds to build their nests within the safety of the
temple complex. Located over open soil strips, to utilize the nutrient rich
and seed filled bird droppings that fall from above.

Local wall materials that form ideal homes and nest shapes for a variety of pollinator species to colonize. (carizo, bricks, trunk slices, stick slices, cantera)

Locally relevant pollinator plantings, species that support
food, nest and birth cycles for insect and bird varieties that support plant
pollination

Woven into the surrounding plantings are healthy stands of
Carizo and bamboo. These quick growing highly renewable forms of wood
material are readily available for fire fuel, construction material,
irrigation pipes, and repairs on the existing system. 

Cultivation of the Soapberry (Sapindus Mukorossi) throughout
the surrounding gardens provides a nontoxic clarifying soap that can be used in the rinse area of the temple. The trees roots prevent soil erosion, it is
resilient to disease and requires very few nutrients and little water to
thrive. The fruit, once dried can be boiled into a liquid soap or be used
loose in a bag, submerged and massaged to lather.

A open ceiling grid made from Carizo, underplanted with snack
gourds (Luffa aegyptiaca),
a vining gourd whose fruit can be dried as used as a skin exfoliant for human
skin. The vines and leaves create shaded space underneath.

To avoid build up of human waste in any single location which
can create toxicity and anaerobic soil conditions, Mullein, a fast growing
tall leafy medicinal plant will be planted in a dense ring around the temple
complex. Their giant, abundant soft leaves make the ideal renewable toilet
paper. Visual absence of leaves is a visual indicator for users of where
other defectors have recently been, so they can choose lesser used areas thus
spreading out the impact of human fecal waste. Plant reseeds itself.

Using gravity to push water from stage to stage, these filtration steps are troughs filled with a variety of easily accessible and
renewable natural filtration materials, removing harmful solids and chemicals from the water as it enters the temple complex. Crushed Corn cob, Moringa seeds, and coconut husks, grown In the edible forest, are complimented by steps of local sand, rock, and widely available Zeolite, a filtration favorite of the Maya. Bamboo charcoal, grown in the edible forest, is a byproduct created in the interior stove, used as another step of filtration. Local sand, stones and soil compromise additional steps. All materials can be locally generated and easily freshened.