The plate in brief

When it rains, the courtyard drinks. Water runs off the roof into a cistern. Permeable paving lets it soak through. Tree soil cells give the roots room to breathe and store water underneath the stone. A planted bioswale slows the flow, a short-term storage bed holds it, and a safe overflow sends the rest into the district network.

We infiltrate where the geology allows and drain safely where it doesn’t. In Jerusalem that looks like terraced capture, in Haifa like slope-safe drainage, in Hebron like storage and shade. The idea is to close each loop at the scale where it actually works.

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