Stata Center Outwash Basin
The designed the landscape for this Frank Gehry building on the MIT campus. Nitsch Engineering designed the storm water bioretention system. Wendy Goldsmith Bioengineering did the planting design. This system is multi functional: it is a constructed wetland that detains runoff to reduce peak downstream flow, the wetland's plants and planting medium cleanses the runoff, it allows some ground water infiltration, and a solar powered pump pushes the water back up to the wetland after its first pass through the water quality polishing cycle. This pumping not only cleanses the water a second time it also maintains the wetland moisture level required for plant health and vigor. The Olin concept was based of creating a "slice of new England," a piece of a riverine and wetland system. MIT was not very interested in green design when these ideas were put first forth by the landscape architects and engineers. Once the university realized that the EPA would reduce some of their pending fines for other violations, they became supporters of these ideas! (Tim Baird)
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- Stata Center Outwash Basin
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Designer: Olin Partnership and Nitsch Engineering
- Client: MTI
- Last Updated: February 20, 2007, 1:18 pm
