Giving a home to the rain in a sea of asphalt— this artwork makes an urban prairie in a parking lot.

A meandering pathway leads visitors over a wetland, above native plants, and to the doors of the new Stevens Creek Nature Preserve.

A life-size topographical map draws attention to the contours of the earth beneath the city’s grid.

A collaboration between the rainfall and the built environment, Rain Ravine fulfills one of the petals of the Living Building Challenge.

Parking lots take up a great deal of the real estate in our built world. Most of the time, these expanses of concrete or asphalt remain unused by cars. Can we design parking lots to better job at sharing the landscape with nature?

Every day of precipitation is captured in a bottle and placed back into the calendar.

Every time the Schuylkill Center gets 1" of rain, Rain Yard captures and slows over 3,000 gallons of water. With the average of 40" of rain Philadelphia gets per year, it captures and slows nearly 100,000 gallons.

Blue dots create a rain shadow of water moving across the urban hardscape.

This stone map articulates the flow of the local watershed, giving Penn State University students and the community a sense of how water flows in this area.

In the pattern of tributaries, the blue roof gutters carry the storm water into the rain garden.

Cloudstones bring a sky view down to the ground plane.

The water creates a bridge across the street and shows the flow of rain water and waste water under the street flowing down east to the river.

Solar lights map the flow of rainwater off the Staten Island Landfill

Roof water pours down the front of the building. Swirling patterns of hydrology evoke the sense of rain even when dry.