CELEBRATION OF RAINDROPS

An Innovative and Interactive Approach to Rainwater Mangement

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Education Farmland

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Hook Pond

Central Lake

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Located at the south-western area of University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the site is part of the
UIUC Research Park. Despite its noticeable location
near the State Farm Center arena and the iHotel
(the university's official hotel), the area remains an
unappealing space because of lack of canopy
shade and plant diversity as well as an discontinu-
ous pathway. The runoff from unutilized fields and
impervious parking lots is discharged directly to the
existing retention pond that is connected to the
Embarras River, a waterway beginning in Urba-
na-Champaign. This runoff has high concentrations
of phosphorus, nitrogen, and suspended solids, and
eventually leads to the Gulf of Mexico where these
contaminants harm its rich ecosystem and create a
large deadzone where dissolved oxygen is minimal.

"Celebration of Raindrops: An Innovative, Interac-
tive Approach to Rainwater Management" is
designed to remedy those problems and to pro-
vide a space where students, staff and visitors all
can enjoy the interaction with nature and learn
more about green infrastructure. The design pro-
posal consists of a constructed wetland, several
retention/recreation ponds, a rain garden, experi-
mental farmland, and the transformation of an
abandoned silo into a water center. Tying these
features together are a rainwater treatment and
purification system, a clean water recycling and
redistribution system, as well as a greenway system.
Furthermore, our project can assist in achieving the
University's Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) goal
of achieving long-term carbon neutrality by provid-
ing an infill design example at underutilized open
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6.	event plaza

7.	seat walls

8.	sunken classrooms

9.	tall grass prairie

10.	vegetated bioswale

11.	steping stones

12.	pebble stone

13.	flower ,be<

14.	wild flq-ver meadow

15.	lawn

16.	fishing terrace

17.	wooefctrestle

18.	landscape stone

19.	mediation-garden

20.	gabion

21.	education farmlanc

22.	hotel

23.	office

24.	green house ' >

25.	elevated corridor 1 1

26.	bridge

27.	parking lot

28.	arena

29.	central lake

30.	hook pond

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