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Floating Wetland, Urban Design Competition, Water Architecture, Floating Architecture, Booklet Printing, Floating Garden, Landscape Architecture Design, Urban Nature, Sustainable Architecture

Completed for the 2014 Patri Fellowship in Urban Design by Andrea Haynes. To download a copy set up for booklet printing please follow this link: https://www.spur.org/events/2014-09-09/building-san-franciscos-floating-wetlands

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Floating Garden Architecture, Floating Wetland, River Plants, Floating Gardens, Living Pool, Floating Garden, Pond Landscaping, Natural Pond, Natural Swimming Pools

Seattle’s Duwamish River estuary has something new afloat along the shorelines. If you have the chance to visit the river this spring, you might see several structures holding large, square mats of wood straw, biodegradable foam, and other natural materials tethered to piles near the river’s edge. You might also see me or other team members perched on the wooden frames, counting fish, measuring plants, and sampling water quality.

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FloatIsland_section Floating Wetland, Wetland Plants, Island Deck, Floating Architecture, Floating Islands, Goldfish Pond, Stormwater Management, Floating Garden, Floating Island

TCWP is demonstrating a way to bring the water-cleansing qualities of a natural wetland to stormwater detention basins where the water level is too deep and fluctuating, or the shores are too steep for a typical in-ground wetland. A floating wetland island is a man-made raft that floats on the water’s surface and houses native wetland plants. These floating wetlands have plant, soil and root interactions similar to a natural wetland and provide homes to beneficial water-cleaning…

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