Residential Sustainable Urban Drainage : 2012

The project was the master’s degree's dissertation which is a study of sustainable urban drainage implementation in residential area. The work included the study of the principles, techniques and case studies’ SUD implementation, then evaluate the design outcome in order to transfer them to UK setting. The transferability was indicated by climate type and precipitation rate

Furthermore, the design was highly based on the site existing topography which were then utilized to conduct the drainage system and shape the character design of the space.

In order to test the implementation on the design's open space, the unit number and open space size should be realistic, therefore the project estimated unit size and number of the unit including area for car park that agreed to the sustainable ratio of 1:5 cars/house. These areas were calculated into the design which resulted in the public space design Gross density 39 du/ha Net density 98 du/ha

Total residential units 1372 Units Units size estimation 6mx10m

Carpark 1875 cars Openspace for residents 2.6 ha

The designed ratio follows Urban Task Force and Shaping Neighbourhood guideline

SUDS Implementation diagram Ostfildern water management precedent

The design had followed the SUDS principles and the management train, each stages of the management train had applied SUDS techniques according to the case studies implementations which resulted in UK residential typology with realistic green spaces that could be used as the drainage feature. However, the size and amount of the water retained would still requires civil engineer's assistances.

SUDS techniques sample in key spaces