3rd Street Green Corridor
Client : NYC Departement of Environmental Protection (D.E.P.)
Landscape architect : Future Green Studio
Social partner : Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation
Design proposal for the DEP Stormwater Grant competition which have to permit the rainwater flow regulation and filtration.
> 2 Rain gardens design
> Green wall
> Permeable paving
Gowanus Canal have been during few years source of many pollutions discharge. This site became a superfund place which have to be treat in emergency.
The 3rd Street Green Corridor proposes an integrated system of [rainwater gardens + permeable paving] and living wall designed to retain and detain stormwater runoff through multiple strategies: capture and controlled release, infiltration into the ground, soil absorption through capillary action, and evapotranspiration. A series of two primary rainwater gardens will be embedded in the south sidewalk of 3rd Street, with an adjacent strip of permeable paving on the street along the curb; excess water outflowing from the last rainwater bed channels into the living wall system.
The [rainwater gardens + permeable paving] and living wall work together to manage stormwater of the site's micro-watershed where street and sidewalk are pitched toward the curb. In a storm event, the rainfall encompassed by the project's drainage area will thereby be diverted from the combined sewer system at peak flow. In an exceptionally large storm event, any excess water not retained by the green infrastructure will gradually, and after significant delay, be released back to the street where it will enter the combined sewer system.
Internship work at Future Green Studio (New York City)
Landscape architect : Future Green Studio
Social partner : Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation
Design proposal for the DEP Stormwater Grant competition which have to permit the rainwater flow regulation and filtration.
> 2 Rain gardens design
> Green wall
> Permeable paving
Gowanus Canal have been during few years source of many pollutions discharge. This site became a superfund place which have to be treat in emergency.
The 3rd Street Green Corridor proposes an integrated system of [rainwater gardens + permeable paving] and living wall designed to retain and detain stormwater runoff through multiple strategies: capture and controlled release, infiltration into the ground, soil absorption through capillary action, and evapotranspiration. A series of two primary rainwater gardens will be embedded in the south sidewalk of 3rd Street, with an adjacent strip of permeable paving on the street along the curb; excess water outflowing from the last rainwater bed channels into the living wall system.
The [rainwater gardens + permeable paving] and living wall work together to manage stormwater of the site's micro-watershed where street and sidewalk are pitched toward the curb. In a storm event, the rainfall encompassed by the project's drainage area will thereby be diverted from the combined sewer system at peak flow. In an exceptionally large storm event, any excess water not retained by the green infrastructure will gradually, and after significant delay, be released back to the street where it will enter the combined sewer system.
Internship work at Future Green Studio (New York City)
June 2011
