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CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

Victoria Airport Parking Lot Expantion, 2006

Paul de Greeff, M.L.A.Murdoch de Greeff Inc. Landscape Architecture

SITE ADAPTIVE PLANNING AND DESIGN

CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

What is Rainwater Management?

CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

Rainwater is:

1. An integral/Functional Component of Landscapes SITE ADAPTIVE PLANNING AND DESIGN

2. Not a Waste Product Rainwater as a Resource

3. To be Celebrated OPTIONS, IDEAS and CREATIVITY = FUN

What is Rainwater Management?

CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

Site Adaptive Planning and Design

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Analysis Plans- defi nes opportunities & constraints for a site

- inventory features and defi ne protection zones

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Framework Plan- recommends buildable vs. non-buildable lands

- explores logical circula-tion patterns

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Site Adaptive Planning and Design

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Exerpt: 1959 Soils Study byCanada Dept. ofAgriculture

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30mm rain = 2.4m380 m2

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300mm sandw/ 20% voids = 6m3

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Site Adaptive Planning and Design

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rain cistern = 1m3 storage

summer = dead storagewinter = live storage

CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

Site Adaptive Planning and Design

Additional Landscape Capacity Issues:

- Hydraulic Conductivities - gravels (typ. +100 metres/day) - sands (typ. 10 metres/day) - silts/clays (typ. 1mm/day)

- Maximum stable slope angles (saturated)

- Breakout potential

- Drainage channel morphology

- Pollution cleansing limits

CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

Rainwater as A Resource

Resource:

- an available source of wealth

- something which can be used to accomplish a goal

CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

Rainwater as A Resource

What Does Rainwater Do (Natural Capital)?

- feeds creeks and aquatic habitat

- waters forests and terrestrial vegetation

- supplies aquifers

- part of landscape character defi nition

CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

Rainwater as A Resource

What Can We Do with Rainwater (Manufactured Capital)?

- domestic water use

- energy

- garden features and defi ning landscape element

- public art...

CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management

Options, Ideas & Creativity

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H. Dreiseitl & D. Grau, New Waterscapes

David Fuchs

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Options, Ideas & Creativity

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H. Dreiseitl & D. Grau, New Waterscapes

Atelier/Dreiseitl

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Options, Ideas & Creativity

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City of Portland

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Options, Ideas & Creativity

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Oak Bay Home Hardware

TD Bank

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Options, Ideas & Creativity

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VictoriaInterna-tional Airport

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Options, Ideas & Creativity

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Thank You!