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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
Inve
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CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Site Adaptive Planning and Design
Res
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Des
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CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Analysis Plans- defi nes opportunities & constraints for a site
- inventory features and defi ne protection zones
Site Adaptive Planning and Design
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Framework Plan- recommends buildable vs. non-buildable lands
- explores logical circula-tion patterns
CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Site Adaptive Planning and Design
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Mt. Douglas CreekWatershed Boundary
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Exerpt: 1959 Soils Study byCanada Dept. ofAgriculture
CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Site Adaptive Planning and Design
Land
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30mm rain = 2.4m380 m2
80 m2
300mm sandw/ 20% voids = 6m3
CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Site Adaptive Planning and Design
Land
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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
Rai
n P
ark
H. Dreiseitl & D. Grau, New Waterscapes
David Fuchs
CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Options, Ideas & Creativity
Rai
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H. Dreiseitl & D. Grau, New Waterscapes
Atelier/Dreiseitl
CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Options, Ideas & Creativity
Urb
an S
treet
scap
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City of Portland
CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Options, Ideas & Creativity
Func
tiona
l Lan
dsca
pes
Oak Bay Home Hardware
TD Bank
CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Options, Ideas & Creativity
Ret
hink
ing
Par
king
Lot
s
VictoriaInterna-tional Airport
CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Options, Ideas & Creativity
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CRD WORKSHOP: Rainwater Management
Thank You!