Sponge Garden won an Honour Award in the 2022 WLA Awards – Built-Small category
The climate is changing: the rain is getting heavier, and the dry periods are lasting longer. How can we moderate these two extremes? Rainwater currently drains through sewers and increases the problem of drought. In the future, there will be even a need for larger sewers. The mechanism of how a sponge can work follows a threefold sequence of collecting water, storing it for a certain period and then returning the water into the ecosystem. This ‘Collect – Store – Return’ sequence implies that the concept of a sponge is, in essence, a system.
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