Ten Years of Campus LID Research and Practice in Tsinghua University

In recent decades, many cities in China and across the world have been suffering from the flooding and rainwater waterlog problems. Campus, being regarded as the innovation base and green hub of cities, could play significant role not only for the mitigation of stormwater problems but also for the environmental education. Since 2009, campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing has been used as a lab for stormwater management teaching and research, and it was titled Sponge Campus Initiatives after the concept of Sponge City was widely adopted. During the past 10 years, in total over 30 innovative design case study were proposed in Tsinghua campus and 4 of them were realized. These works demonstrated rich innovative design considerations combining water issues with benefits such as campus history, social life, landscape aesthetic, community regeneration, and environmental education. Before these pioneering and frontier works there was no such way in Chinese universities and education programs. Besides, this decade of teaching in the course of landscape hydrology has borne rich academic fruits, including papers, books, and awards of national and international levels. The most recent one is the 2019 ASLA Students Excellent Award and the 2019 Finalist of the Landscape Innovation Award of Landscape Institute of U.K. with the research of “ Monitoring Design: Stormwater Management Process Visualization and Evaluation” of Shengyin Yuan. This paper intends to introduce the development of landscape hydrology course and Sponge Campus Initiatives in Tsinghua University showing the way to combine campus stormwater management and landscape planning and design.