Ornamental Rain Barrels
Anywhere USA
With Alex Robinson, Liat Margolis and Leah Broder for Professor Robert France at the GSD 2003
Of pressing importance is how to manage conflicts between watershed protection and urban development. Landscape architects must conceive of ways to retrofit existing infrastructure that is overtaxed by growing urban populations in combination with struggling natural systems. At the heart of this struggle is the connection between what happens at the source (i.e. the paving of driveways by individual property owners) and the cumulative, large-scale effects of these small-scale acts. We developed a consumer product in the spirit of the classic lawn ornament that will appeal to individual homeowners, so one by one, they can take a bite out of storm water.

