DESCRIPTION

Wetlands are an essential part of our ecosystem acting to filter water as it transitions through the water cycle. Unfortunately, our human decisions have destroyed the majority of wetlands across the world. Repairian understands the built environment and its disrespect to the wetland. The built environment does not receive and release water in an efficient, ethical, and sustainable way. Recreating the wetland in Vancouver Washington, Repairian holds, filters and uses water through its vertical systems and occupants mimicking the wetland with its plants, animals, and geology.  Repairian looks to wetlands as inspiration to collect, hold and release water closer to the way nature intended. In doing this, the new development can now disconnect from the grid and run on water naturally provided to the site. Wetlands are traditionally thought of in plan as a mediation between rain on land and the river. The design of Repairian extends the wetland into section, acting as a mediator between the cloud and the aquifer. It becomes a wetland of sky and earth rather than just a wetland of surface. This way of designing not only provides all water needs for humans occupying the land, it also restores land back to its wetland origins. Now this new development intersects itself within the water cycle rather than opposing it like most architecture falls guilty of.