Daylighting Honey Creek
Honey Creek runs beneath the Milwaukee Mile Speedway. This proposal exposes the creek again.
Uncovered, the creek returns to the surface as an engineered wetland designed to be flooded. The low ground fills during storms and opens as usable public space when the water recedes.
Steven Rasmussen | Student Project UWM
Water Treatment Facility
New flood basin & solar thermal mass
Excess Water Cistern
1.Honey Creek runs through a subterranean pipe. After exposing honey creek in a newly designated floodplain,
2. A new waters edge condition is designed as a homage to the man made infrastructure around, creating a new natural landscape of hard angles and strait lines.
3.The former Honey Creek pipe is reused for extra water storage & thermal battery.
4.The floodplain acts as a solar field heating the water before it is transported to the cistern. A water treatment facility treats greywater from the neighborhood before depositing it in the riparian filtration zone of the floodplain or stored in the cistern.
Water treatment facility
Greywater systems for flushing and landscaping
Stormwater pipes
Water diverted from the city is used, treated and returned to the landscape.
Water is collected from rainfall events and stored in floodplain and cistern.
The collected and stored rainwater is used to flush toilets and water landscaping elements.
Water is treated and filtered before being returned to the landscape at the riparian zone of the floodplain.
Water flows from the newly developed district to the exposed Honey creek below. The zone around the creeks normal flow is designed as a public space, and to be flooded during large rain events.
Public Space Designed to Flood
Riparian Water Filtration
Water flows from a treatment facility and runs off from the areas above.
Treated water and run-off is filtered through the substrate and riparian plantings on the banks of the river before returning to the natural flow of Honey Creek.
Water flows out into the floodplain of Honey Creek and infiltrates into the groundwater.
Water feature & solar collection
Greywater and runoff are pumped up to the reused Milwaukee Mile bleacher stands, to be used as a public water feature and education opportunity.
Water from the bleachers flows back down to the regular flow of Honey Creek.
Solar panels top the reused bleachers organized to mimic a tree canopy. Solar lily pads in the river and marsh lands increase the solar collection potential.