A new service building in Vincent Massey Park will feature a design that is both whimsical and conserves water.
National Capital Commission designers have paid homage to the park’s many trees with a roof in the shape of a leaf.
The shape is also practical, as it will funnel rainwater to waterfalls at both sides of the building, and then to a catch basin.
Sediment will be screened out, then the water will go to storage tanks where a filtration system, including ultraviolet light, will clean it. The water won’t be drinking-water quality, but will be fine for use in the toilets.
Stephen Robertson, an architect with the NCC, said Wednesday that the park’s visitors would use little municipal water when they visited the washrooms.
Over 50 years, the building will use only three municipal pools of city water, instead of 86 pools.
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