drainage... in colour (sort of)

drainage in colour a photo by joey.donovan on Flickr.

This is the initial plan for site drainage- notes in the preceding entry on contours explain how it works. Sort of.

Essentially the majority of the site is hard surfaced, water runs off, collects in a pond after filtration and is redistributed.

I had a bit more of a think about this after doing some Potsdam research and made some notes on the way back from Paris ("exciting" photographs with NO people in them coming soon...), which I thought I'd include here.

Draft gradients

level level drft a photo by joey.donovan on Flickr.

This was thrown together a few weeks ago but deserves a place on the blog even though prosaic.

The development area is framed by avenues to the North, South and west and a retention basin in the east (bottom page).

Some contours are extruded at level across the grade to create new design features.

Beyond the avenue, a skate park and children's play area disturb the regimented topography.