A study of sustainable stormwater management design in China’s mixed-use urbanized environments and a design application in Taihu, Beijing

摘要

Stormwater is a water resource rather than a waste. Harvesting stormwater and treatingstormwater on-site can make stormwater an alternative resource and reduceenvironmental problems such as urban runoff pollution, stream and wetland degradation,increased bank erosion and loss of groundwater. By reviewing related literature,exploring precedents, and conducting site observations, this creative project determinedthe current trends of sustainable stormwater management design in urban and suburbanenvironments, indicated the environmental and cultural impacts of such design, proposedsuitable design approaches concerned with sustainable stormwater management thatcould provide amenity functions based on China’s environmental and cultural situation,and applied these design approaches into a mixed-use suburban development design onthe outskirts of Beijing, China. This development design converted an existing villageinto a working ecotourism village with stormwater management and wastewatermanagement as integrated parts of the community water quality enhancement.