Water Flow

Design HighlightsOur design is about growing with green infrastructure and structuring the curriculum and learning experience around an interactive, scientific, fun, stormwater capture system that has multiple educational, environmental, and health benefits including:

• Managing 100% of stormwater from a 1.2” rainfall event

• Solar energy system to provide school with clean electricity on site

• Continuous play area with increased farm school space and active green features

This combination solar and green roof generates power for the school while also working to control stormwater runoff.

123,900kWh annually

Permeable play surfaces

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Stormwater feature and rain garden

Elevated teaching garden beds

Solar Power System Solar Power Info:● 90 kW system● Estimated annual power output:

123,900 kWh generated● Upfront cost: $427,00

○ Costs with incentives: $264,000○ Payback period: 13 years

Under Solar Green Roof:● 7,900 ft² of resilient and adaptive plant

species ● Extensive (6” depth) to reduce roof

load● Manages 16,270 gallons of stormwater

in 1.2” rainfall

Proposed site plan design. Scale bar represents 50 feet.

Aquaponics outdoor classroom space (+ 16’)

Extensive green roof with solar (+ 23’)

Green Infrastructure Design and Build StudioGita Nandan, Elliott Maltby, and Frederick WolfSummer 2019 | Pratt Institute

Leslie Velazquez and Anna Yie

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Site Plan

The design uses the natural grade of the site to gather and direct stormwater into a large native plant rain garden.

Green Infrastructure Stormwater ManagementIn a 1.2” rainfall event

Intensive Green Roof:22,560 gallons of stormwater managed

Solar-Green Roof:16,270 gallons of stormwater managed

Aquaponics Roof:5,420 gallons of stormwater managed

Permeable Schoolyard Ground:24,160 gallons of stormwater managed

Rain Garden:26,137 gallons of stormwater managed

Ground level

Patio areas with seating and tables for class or group work

Solar panels over green roof

Aquaponics system

Permeable pavers

Student-run farmers market

Intensive green roof with walking path (+ 65’)

100 ft

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DIMATTINA PLAYGROUNDBQE

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● Partnership with Trust For Public Land

● Schoolyard elements include greenwall, permeable pavement, permeable field, and garden

● Bridge over BQE to connect school to DiMattina Playground

● Multiple layers of green to separate school yard and BQE

Plants: Delosperma cooperi, Carex flacca, Schizachyrium scoparium, Achillea millefolium, Sedum aizoon, Sedum middendorffianum

Who is who:School Yard Team: Staff & Green Committee After School Green Team: Student volunteers SYEP: BNS students paid through NYC program School Custodial Staff: Make DOE BOC training availableGrowing Green Class: New sustainability class that will incorporate Science, Health, Math, Technology, & Arts. This class can help identify those who are mature enough to work at the Youth Market and/or vendor their own table.

Farmers Market System and Opportunities

The site is located outside of two DCP FRESH food zones and is currently not near any farmers market (.25 mi). Coles Street provides a great venue for the Youth Market to promote art, economic, and educational opportunities for the community. NYC Farmers market vendors earn an average of $1,050 per vending day during the season.

Green Infrastructure Programming and Maintenance

Food education and production Scientific and ecosystems learning

Economics and community interaction

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School Yard Team

Sensory Garden(Elementary School)

School YearSept- June

SummerJuly - August

Science Beyond Walls(Middle School)

Grow Green (High School)

After School Green Team

Summer Youth Employment

School CustodialStaff

SummerJuly - August

SummerJuly - August

School YearSept- June

School YearSept- June

Youth Market (High School)

School YearSept- June

SummerJuly - August

Growing Green Class

- Active - Participating- Inactive

Green Infrastructure Design and Build StudioGita Nandan, Elliott Maltby, and Frederick WolfSummer 2019 | Pratt Institute

Leslie Velazquez and Anna Yie

Growing with Green Infrastructure: A Design Proposal for BCS and BNS

Sensory Garden: Students engage all five senses through learning and playing in the garden

Science Beyond Walls: scientific systems learning outside the classroom through aquaponics.

Growing Green: Home to YouthMarket, classroom, and H.S. chill space.

Science

Seed to Plate

Youth Market

Make $$$

Plants & Veggies

Benefits of Garden

Solar Panels

Save $$$

Economics

Garden

Health

Sell goods & produce made by school kids

Employ High Schoolers

S.T.E.A.M.

Source and image credits: google earth, google maps, NYC.gov: SYEP, DCP, DPR, EPA.gov, EIA.gov, greenroofs.org, edibleschoolyard.org, dec.ny.gov, livingroofs.org, gardenista.net, greenscape-ltd.com, thenounproject.com, vectorstock.com, masseolandscape.com, and Oko Farms

- Grow Green- Science Beyond the Walls- Sensory Garden