Stormwater Transformation

Mount Tabor Middle School Rain Garden in Portland, Oregon, designed by Kevin Robert Perry with Brandon Wilson and built in 2007.

Here, most of the rainwater falling on the school grounds are captured and allowed to infiltrate the soil rather than piped away on aging sewers.

BEFORE :

This highscohol’s car park has been transformed, now it cleanses the water of pollutants, cools the school’s south-facing classroom and provides an on-site, real-world example of environmental design.