Ice and gravel This spring I visited Grubenpark, an old gravel quarry in southern Munich. The mine was exploited until the late seventies and its processing plant shutdown only twenty years ago. Fifty years of human inactivity in the quarry have transformed the wavy stony ground into a diverse forest, where lower areas of the pit turn into […]
Imagining constructed wetlands in future cities Simply put, constructed wetlands are man-made basins where specific vegetation is grown. Wastewater flows into the basin, or into a chain of them, one after another. The vegetation, soil and organisms from the wetland effectively treat the water. At some point the water is collected again in the system and ready to be reused. I’m […]