This project is among the largest building and site projects undertaken in the history of the University of Virginia. Challenged with creating an infrastructural system aimed at meeting the comprehensive stormwater management goals for the next decade of development at The University of Virginia, the design of the John Paul Jones Arena Site integrates site and regional hydrology with ecology and cultural programming.
Virtually the entire site is an armature for collecting and cleaning water while simultaneously choreographing the movements of people to and from events at the Arena. The coordination of these site flows recognizes movements by water and people as being strongly related and having both functional and poetic qualities. Water management strategies and functional native plant community gardens define the experience of people that inhabit the site. This integration is carried out across scales, from the overall topographic form to the smallest site detail.
