Reintegrate nature into Britannia’s urban land-

scape, in order to deepen connection to place and

to each other

Promote Britannia as an exemplarary educational

space for people of all ages

Showcase ecological design and urban ecological

living

Vision
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1. Establish Britannia as a centre for
ecological learning and living
2. Integrate multiple elements of food
systems into Britannia, from educational
opportunities to production, processing,
and market spaces
3. Utilize rainwater harvesting, cisterns, and
stormwater management techniques
to collect, store, and treat water on site
4. Supplement energy requirements with
solar photovoltaics and energy from waste
5. Improve pedestrian circulation and provide
nodes for socializing
6. Foster support for each ecological function
by providing multiple elements (redundancy)
7. Assure provided elements perform multiple
functions (stacking)

Goals
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 6 4 8 7

5
3 1. New Information Centre
2. Natural Playground
3. Garden and Agricultural Spaces
1
4. Community Food Centre
5. High School Addition
6. Solar Aquatic Centre
2
7. Natural Pool
8. Eco Housing

Program Requirements
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1. Rooftop Bird Habitat
2. Pollinator Garden
3. Natural Playground
4. Natural Swimming
Pool
5. Ethnobotanical
Garden

Legend
Landscaping

Rooftop Bird Habitat

Pollinator Garden

Natural Playground

Natural Swimming Pool

Ethnobotanical Garden

Naturalized Spaces
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1. Window Farm

Window Farm
2. Elementary School Vegetable Patch
3. Farmers’ Market Space
4. Community Gardens
Elementary School Vegetable Patch
5. Community Food Centre
6. Herb and Showcase Garden
7. Bake Oven
Farmers’ Market Space 8. High School Agricultural Space
Bake Oven
9. Edible Landscaping
High School Agricultural Space

10. Chicken Coop

Community Food Centre 11. Espalier Orchard
Edible Landscaping 12. Orchard
Herb and Showcase Garden
Chicken Coop

Orchard

Espalier Orchard

Community Gardens

Food Systems
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1. Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting - 8.03 million L/yr
2. Rain Gardens & Bioswales
3. Cisterns - 4 month rainfall
4. Solar Aquatics - Up to 600 people
5. All-weather turf - 4 micro soccer fields
6. Spaced Grass Paving

Legend
Rain Water Collection

Cisterns

Permeable Artificial Turf

Permeable Pathway

Solar Aquatics

Rain Garden

Water Systems
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1. Solar Photovoltaics - 1.14 MW (105 households)
2. Solar Hot Water
3. Composting
4. Biodiesel - 200 L capacity

Legend
Solar PV

Solar Hot Water

Composting

Biodiesel

Energy & Waste Systems

Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1 1. Britannia Commons
2. City View Corner
3. Britannia Knoll
4. Butterfly Park
2 3 5. Market Square

5 4

Legend
Pedestrian Pathway

Bike Pathway

Node

Circulation
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1. Build a new showcase Information Centre
2. Transform surface parking into multi-use
space
3. Capture and store rainwater
4. Improve façades, entrances, landscaping and
paving
5. Begin high school agricultural space on
north side of library
6. Capture solar energy

Phase 1
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1. Establish a Green Ribbon through Britannia
2. Create Year-Round Sports Fields
3. Create food education infrastructure in
Britannia
4. Create a waste management system in
Britannia
5. Build additional high school space, including
art alley
6. Heat exchange between pool and rink
7. Resurface rest of Napier with semi to
permeable surfaces

Phase 2
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White
 1. Build Eco Housing on remainder of
parking lot
2. Natural Pool

Phase 3
Erin Bett
Daniella Fergusson
Nature in the City Design for Britannia Community Services Centre Farzine MacRae
Tate White