Progressions and new deals between urban rivers and dwellers: from an enclosed channel to a new fluctuating social space. The Metropolitan Water Park, Expo 2008, Zaragoza.
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Abstract
The 20th century defined a pattern in city’s relationships with urban rivers on a global scale, based on criteria of exploitation and immediacy, where the riverside space was suppressed in pursuit of the supposed need to protect citizens and property. With the new millennium came the pressures of climate change, forcing a paradigm shift that translated into a new sensitivity toward these lines of conflict. Some international events, such as the 2004 Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, began to acknowledge this reality, but it was an International Exhibition in 2008 that materialized these changes in a grand project.
For three months, the city of Zaragoza became the headquarters for the international exhibition Expo 2008, which centered on the theme “Water and Sustainable Development”. The exhibition grounds were located between the banks of the Ebro River and the edges of Zaragoza’s fourth ring road. In addition to serving as a splendid emblem of the exhibition’s intentions, the venue offered an opportunity to improve the city as a whole, mainly by opening the city toward the Ebro River, among other major infrastructural changes.
The relevance of the Water Park—designed by aldayjover and Christine Dalnoky—lay in recognizing that it entailed designing a transformation process, attuned to the surroundings and to the passage of time, in a process that defined architectural, topographic and landscape logics to promote geographic, historic and territorial integration. And yet, the Water Park should not be understood as an isolated exercise; rather, it explains the strategies used in a series of pioneering projects on a radically different scale. At the same time, the Water Park kicked off a specific trend in subsequent designs, paving the way for a specific and globally recognizable progression in the use of innovative tactics that range from working with the idea of socio-ecological landscapes to a dilution of the classical partitions established by urban planning.
CitacióSogbe, E.; Devesa, R. Progressions and new deals between urban rivers and dwellers: from an enclosed channel to a new fluctuating social space. The Metropolitan Water Park, Expo 2008, Zaragoza. A: International Conference ‘Grand Projects - Urban Legacies of the late 20th Century'. "Grand Projects: Urban Legacies of the late 20th Century. Conference Proceedings". 2021, p. 927-938. ISBN 978-989-781-551-5.
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