GATOR POND COMPETITION

Gainesville, Florida

Watersheds are a crucial part of our ecosystem. They must be protected and embraced in the landscape through artful rainwater design and other stormwater infrastructure measures. Our purpose in implementing stormwater design to highlight the eco services that watersheds provide on campus would improve all users’ intrinsic connection to water. The architecture building’s close approximation to the Gator Pond provides a strong opportunity to reinforce existing natural elements’ missing connection to the site.

In this collaboration with Schenkel Shultz and Buro Happold, Dix Hite & Partners wanted to bring back water to life, along with carbon and other biological elements on the site. To bring these elements back to life means engaging all users across the campus landscape. My contribution to this project includes the rendering of the illustrative site plan, site analysis, process sketches, and circulation diagram.