FROM THE CRACK TO THE LANDS OF WATER The case of the Guadalmedina river

Authors

  • Carme Carcaño Zapata ETSAB, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona
  • Pilar Martí Manrique
  • Fernando Lua Silva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.10048

Abstract

The Guadalmedina (from the Arabic وادي المدينة wādī al-Madīna, "river of the city") today has lost its character and it is instead a dry channel that channeled through the city of Malaga alien to it. The project “Por aquí pasa un río” presented in the contest of ideas for the urban integration of the Guadalmedina river, 2012, proposes how to reverse this situation and make the “crack” of the Guadalmedina river become a civic axis and element of integration of the city. The analysis of the work allows us to explore an intervention methodology for the river spaces project, based on the simultaneous consideration of different scenarios, times and scale, and to corroborate the following hypothesis: the urban water land project must be approached through starting from strategies that at all times seek interscalarity, interdisciplinarity and good management of water resources.

Keywords: river, Mediterranean cities, water, free space

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Published

2022-01-19

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SIIU2021_BARCELONA