The Unit Garden is a partly experiential, partly educational garden. The hope is to give visitors a different perspective on arguably our most precious resource, water. The garden is meant to be visited on rainy days, which are frequent here in Vancouver. Rainwater is collected through different glass funnels and then distributed into glass cubes. The cubes represent the amount of rainwater collected over different time periods. Hopefully this will give visitors a concrete idea of how much rainwater can be collected and utilized and how much we are wasting. Each cube has spouts to release water once it passes a certain pre-determined average point. Over flow water then flows down the slope via troughs carved into the earth, and out into a swale. In this way, the garden is a holistic system. As the population in Vancouver grows substantially, demands on our water supplies also increase. The public must be made more aware of the value of this precious resource in their day to day affairs, including visits to the park.
