Project: Sustainable Drainage urban system

Client: Israeli Center for Multidisciplinary Support

Location: São Paulo – SP

Project year: 2016

Execution year: 2016

Contribution area: 850m²

Property type: business

Purpose: Integration of Sustainable Drainage System elements in a property with inundation problems

Technical characteristics:

• Project designed to minimize inundation on site;
• Application of several sustainable drainage techniques (rain gardens, lawns and planter’s)
• 100% of the rainwater absorbed by the land in 90% of the rainfall of the year, reducing the possibility of inundation in the area;
• Use of deep infiltrators, creating a “lung” of groundwater that is slowly absorbed by the ground;
• Integration of sustainable drainage techniques with local landscaping;
• Creation of an organic vegetable garden as pedagogical element to the users.