Typological proposals of integrated surface water management for an existing urban housing estate in Prague, Czech Republic based on a series of innovative case studies

Dorsa Afsharjavan, BS

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This diploma thesis addresses the topic of integrated and decentralized surface water management within the context of urban drainage. In today's society, water plays a great role environmentally, politically and socially. Water scarcities, floods, diminishing water quality and a lack of access to potable water are all threats that face today's societies around the globe. However, these threats can also pose as opportunities as far as innovative planning, management and future urban and semi-urban development is concerned. Taking a look at water management in the built environment offers an incredible opportunity to reevaluate the conventional methods of urban housing and community developments. The study evaluates the existing hydrological conditions of a conventional urban housing development in Černý Most, Prague, and implements innovative water management techniques based on solutions discussed in published literature and observed at multiple precedent studies in Berlin and Freiburg, Germany. The results include schematic solutions representing typological solutions for surface water management based on the context of the site. The proposed typologies can be adopted as precedents not just for housing estates in Prague but globally as well.

Keywords

Surface water, Urban drainage, Integrated development

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 13. 4. 2017

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: Henry William Andrew Hanson IV.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Environmental Sciences

Master programme / odbor:
Landscape Engineering / Landscape Planning