Rainwater Collective
June 09, 2010
“In a sign of what’s to come, Berkeley issues its first permit for interior use of rainwater.”
By Nate Seltenrich

Read the full article here

Brent and others from the hyphae crew, will be teaching a greywater workshop, June 19th, go sign up for it!
Here’s the link to their calendar and courses..
http://www.sfbotanicalgardensociety.org/sfbgs_calendar_template.cfm?&v=Cal&d=20106&myNextCriteria=undefined
http://www.sfbotanicalgardensociety.org/sfbgs_course_all_template.cfm

This living roof was designed by Brent Bucknum for the McGlashan residence in Mill Valley. It features locally collected native species from rocky habitats, and a few alien invaders in the form of the towering echiums. The residence was designed by Scott McGlashan

“Water & Landscape Systems”
http://dada.cca.edu/~asparks/ats/index.html

The first rainwater system permitted for indoor non-potable water use in the City of Berkeley and County of Alameda.
Client wanted to be as green and water efficient as possible, but still wanted a lush, green landscape. We combined those seemingly opposite ideals to create graywater system that utilizes a constructed wetland which is integrated into [...]

The first rainwater system permitted for indoor non-potable water use in the City of Lafayette and County of Contra Costa.
Architect had inItially designed a 10,000 gallon rainwater harvesting system for landscape irrigation. We calculated we could use graywater for landscape irrigation at a substantially lower cost while providing a smaller rainwater harvesting system to meet [...]

RAINWATER:
Six rainwater HOGs were installed by Hyphae design lab at the Gottfried residence, to capture rainwater for toilet flushing and garden irrigation. The site is a small urban lot with limited space, so two banks of three hogs were placed along the house next to the driveway. An additional HOG collects rainwater from a detached [...]

This was a competition for Re:Vision Dallas where we went far beyond greywater use to define, high density, closed-loop,  water independent, nutrient cycling system.

We designed custom control system, utilizing moisture sensors to control watering based on actual plant water needs. Living wall installed by Hyphae and Intrinsic Landscaping.

Client Background: Client wanted to reduce water bills to avoid EDMUD overage charges. He was also noticing significant amounts of water collecting on his pool cover that he was pumping out to his yard. We connected the dots and installed a 2,500 gallon rainwater storage tank to collect his pool cover water, and use it [...]