Water Flow
Design HighlightsOur design is about growing with green infrastructure and structuring the curriculum and learning experience around an interactive, scientific, fun, stormwater capture system that has multiple educational, environmental, and health benefits including:
• Managing 100% of stormwater from a 1.2” rainfall event
• Solar energy system to provide school with clean electricity on site
• Continuous play area with increased farm school space and active green features
This combination solar and green roof generates power for the school while also working to control stormwater runoff.
123,900kWh annually
Permeable play surfaces
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Stormwater feature and rain garden
Elevated teaching garden beds
Solar Power System Solar Power Info:● 90 kW system● Estimated annual power output:
123,900 kWh generated● Upfront cost: $427,00
○ Costs with incentives: $264,000○ Payback period: 13 years
Under Solar Green Roof:● 7,900 ft² of resilient and adaptive plant
species ● Extensive (6” depth) to reduce roof
load● Manages 16,270 gallons of stormwater
in 1.2” rainfall
Proposed site plan design. Scale bar represents 50 feet.
Aquaponics outdoor classroom space (+ 16’)
Extensive green roof with solar (+ 23’)
Green Infrastructure Design and Build StudioGita Nandan, Elliott Maltby, and Frederick WolfSummer 2019 | Pratt Institute
Leslie Velazquez and Anna Yie
Growing with Green Infrastructure: A Design Proposal for BCS and BNS 94,550
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Site Plan
The design uses the natural grade of the site to gather and direct stormwater into a large native plant rain garden.
Green Infrastructure Stormwater ManagementIn a 1.2” rainfall event
Intensive Green Roof:22,560 gallons of stormwater managed
Solar-Green Roof:16,270 gallons of stormwater managed
Aquaponics Roof:5,420 gallons of stormwater managed
Permeable Schoolyard Ground:24,160 gallons of stormwater managed
Rain Garden:26,137 gallons of stormwater managed
Ground level
Patio areas with seating and tables for class or group work
Solar panels over green roof
Aquaponics system
Permeable pavers
Student-run farmers market
Intensive green roof with walking path (+ 65’)
100 ft
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● Partnership with Trust For Public Land
● Schoolyard elements include greenwall, permeable pavement, permeable field, and garden
● Bridge over BQE to connect school to DiMattina Playground
● Multiple layers of green to separate school yard and BQE
Plants: Delosperma cooperi, Carex flacca, Schizachyrium scoparium, Achillea millefolium, Sedum aizoon, Sedum middendorffianum
Who is who:School Yard Team: Staff & Green Committee After School Green Team: Student volunteers SYEP: BNS students paid through NYC program School Custodial Staff: Make DOE BOC training availableGrowing Green Class: New sustainability class that will incorporate Science, Health, Math, Technology, & Arts. This class can help identify those who are mature enough to work at the Youth Market and/or vendor their own table.
Farmers Market System and Opportunities
The site is located outside of two DCP FRESH food zones and is currently not near any farmers market (.25 mi). Coles Street provides a great venue for the Youth Market to promote art, economic, and educational opportunities for the community. NYC Farmers market vendors earn an average of $1,050 per vending day during the season.
Green Infrastructure Programming and Maintenance
Food education and production Scientific and ecosystems learning
Economics and community interaction
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School Yard Team
Sensory Garden(Elementary School)
School YearSept- June
SummerJuly - August
Science Beyond Walls(Middle School)
Grow Green (High School)
After School Green Team
Summer Youth Employment
School CustodialStaff
SummerJuly - August
SummerJuly - August
School YearSept- June
School YearSept- June
Youth Market (High School)
School YearSept- June
SummerJuly - August
Growing Green Class
- Active - Participating- Inactive
Green Infrastructure Design and Build StudioGita Nandan, Elliott Maltby, and Frederick WolfSummer 2019 | Pratt Institute
Leslie Velazquez and Anna Yie
Growing with Green Infrastructure: A Design Proposal for BCS and BNS
Sensory Garden: Students engage all five senses through learning and playing in the garden
Science Beyond Walls: scientific systems learning outside the classroom through aquaponics.
Growing Green: Home to YouthMarket, classroom, and H.S. chill space.
Science
Seed to Plate
Youth Market
Make $$$
Plants & Veggies
Benefits of Garden
Solar Panels
Save $$$
Economics
Garden
Health
Sell goods & produce made by school kids
Employ High Schoolers
S.T.E.A.M.
Source and image credits: google earth, google maps, NYC.gov: SYEP, DCP, DPR, EPA.gov, EIA.gov, greenroofs.org, edibleschoolyard.org, dec.ny.gov, livingroofs.org, gardenista.net, greenscape-ltd.com, thenounproject.com, vectorstock.com, masseolandscape.com, and Oko Farms
- Grow Green- Science Beyond the Walls- Sensory Garden