La misteriosa historia del jardín que produce agua - 9a Biennal 2016

Mónica García Fernández, Javier Rubio Montero

Known as “El Coso”, the place was a great void at the back of the old part of Cehegín (Murcia, Spain).
With beautiful views on the landscape, it was a mess of disconnected streets with height differences,
uninhabitable for its steep slopes. Besides this, the area seemed to lack inhabitable gardens, and the
city needs to breathe through them. To achieve a garden would require large amounts of water, in a
region with limited water resources.
We located the "desire paths", of the neighbours. By tracing those paths on the ground, the streets on
the borders were connected by using comfortable slopes.
We collect the rain water and the waste water from the sewing network in the high part of the site.
The waste water goes along the pond network with riparian plants that filter and clean it. This water is
used to irrigate the rest of the plants in the garden. We obtain recycled water for irrigating an
inhabitable garden. This situation attracts local fauna.
We hid a building in a pocket of the walk path. The building gives its roof to the park. The Municipality
decided to dedicate this building to host a business incubator.
The result is a garden that produces water, where flora attracts fauna; cats, frogs, swifts, pigeons, and
a number of different kinds of insects contribute with their movements and sounds to those produced
by the leaves, water and the neighbours in their constant walking through "El Coso" to the other side.

Autors

Mónica García Fernández

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Javier Rubio Montero

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