Meeting space)
9.9 Detail design - Collective rainwater garden & Waterside
reading area
B B
Fig.79 Waterside reading area
Fig.80 Waterside reading area rendering
Outdoor reading areas are in green belt 3, which is a part of “Green corridor” and quieter than any other places with trees and flowing water.
So people can relax near the water, reading books or even musing.
10 Conclusion
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n order to impulse Eindhoven to be a more livable and sustainable city, water sensitive city is used as a concept to solve those water issue problems which is caused by climate change.In a water sensitive city, water management should be integrated into water landscape. After comparing with one of the best water sensitive city in the world, Melbourne, we found that in Eindhoven water management system, stormwater management is missing.
That is also the reason why Eindhoven
problems. In the meantime, Eindhoven is lack of good water landscape.
Actually, in history, the water landscape network was more dense that it is now.
However, some of them are stuck, some of them are just disappeared.
So water reconnection project was proposed by De Dommel water board and Eindhoven municipality. And in my proposal, this project must be combined with rainwater and stormwater management, which helps Eindhoven to be a water sensitive city.
So several new strategies about water sensitive city are needed, such as legislation, renewal of public space, publicity, new technology of water use and reward system etc. As a designer, renewal of public space should be focused on.
10 Conclusion
So to solve water issue unlivable problems, the design is in three scales, which are city scale, local scale and detail scale respectively. In city scale, the original watercourse reconnection project can be improved. New Gender river is not only connected to Strijp-S, but also to Brainport park. In this way, a new ecological passage with water appears. The passage begins from “Blue corridor” of Eindhoven (Eindhoven canal) in the east of the city and continues to Brainport park which is one of the green finger structure of Eindhoven. Water is the main structure of this ecological passage. It becomes a new water catchment for the whole city which can reduce the pressure of stormwater sewage system.
Following the city scale design, comparing with some location choice, in the end, Strijp-S is chosen as the local scale design location. Because this design is just the first step of achieving “water sensitive city” goals, so the design location must be a well-known place to conduct publicity easily.
Two scales of water design can just in Strijp-S area, make this area more interesting. In city scale, water flows along “Green corridor” which is one
green belt of Stijp-S. In local scale, as a former Philips industrial area, existing typical Strijp’s elements are used. Water is pumped up to existing overhead pipes and falls down in some areas, flows like a circle back to city scale water system in the end. So water landscape here are the main structure. In order to integrate stormwater management, some rainwater gardens are designed here, even the rainwater reuse system in urban farm district. Furthermore, rainwater tanks in residential area and porous pavement in public space are compulsory. In detail design, some technological problems of rainwater collection are solved. More water related programs are added into the main design structure.
In summary, Strijp-S is a field lab for water sensitive urban design.
It is the first step to combine water management and water landscape and design a water sensitive city. It can make contribution to solve climate change problems. But of course, it’s not enough. This is just beginning, while peoples’ awareness of water here will be improved indeed.
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