Recovery of the Irrigation System

CAVAA, Cíclica, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Low Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Agrarian Landscape, Architect’s role, Collaborative work, Consulting community, Developing policies, Earth, Ecological agencies, Ecological design, Ecological researches, Ecology, Empowering society, Energetic Approach, Energy, First nature, Landscape, Natural ecology, Nature, Participation, Political ecology, Project, Reconstructing nature, Soil, Sustainability, Territorial Approach, Territorial dimension, Territory, Thermal, Urban Paradigms, Urban political ecology, Water, Water infrastructure, Water recycling

The project is located in a town called Caldes de Montbui in the Plana del Vallès region of the Barcelona metropolitan area. Specifically, this town gives its name to one of the tributary rivers of the Besós River, the Caldes stream. Caldes receives water from the Pre-Litoral mountain range basin and from a very special resource: the upwelling of thermal springs. Crossed by a tectonic fracture from west to east, the town has numerous upwellings of thermal springs with the hottest water in the whole Iberian Peninsula (74oC). From Roman times, when the city was founded under the name of Aquae Calidae, much of the lands of the Caldes stream basin have been used to cultivate food. The surplus of thermal water made regular irrigation possible even during times of drought.

Bauwelt award 2017

EUMies Award 2017

Winner ex-aequo of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2016

Selected at FAD award 2016

Rosa Barba landscape biennal 2016