Partners in Design provided interpretive design for a combination sunken reservoir with playfield area on top constructed by the City of Bellevue in a residential neighborhood. The project was a unique collaboration between the City’s Utilities and Parks departments, and a key focus of the program was to offer the primary messages of water conservation and quality to visitors not through traditional signs but in an engaging and meaningful way.

We developed the concept of telling the water story through the voices of the creatures who live in the watershed. A series of ten 4-foot cut and bent aluminum sculptures are mounted to poles extending above the sports courts retaining fence line. Each sculpture offers a particular water message which is a short interpretive panel mounted to the pole fences at court level. The festival-like nature of the colorful sculptures engages visitors in the adjacent children’s playground area as well as those in the sports courts because of their size and sculptural interest.

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