Rain shelter

currently i am working on a small project that sees me designing a rain shelter to protect people who get caught in the sudden rain storms that we seem to get in todays modern climate. the rain shelter is going to be situated beside a bridge at the front of writtle college on the threshhold between land and the stream that runs below. the river tends to flood every year due to heavy rains and a large catment area (larger than it should be) so i have decided to place the shelter up the bank in an area that the water never reaches. i also feel that some sort of interaction between the shelter and the bridge is necessary rather than these two structures being seperate bodies.

        the shelter should also have some sort of use for the water that falls upon it. i've decided that the best use for the water that falls on the roof is to make it into a waterfall that the people using the shelter can watch whilst being protected from the elements. this all stems back to my visit to norway in june 2010. at this time it was spring in norway and the snow melt was in full flow, creating hundereds of waterfalls throughout the country. we lack waterfalls in essex due to our geology and topography and i think it would be nice for people to experience what it is like to be behind a waterfall. the picture shows one of my rough models that follows this train of though.