On the rocks- a breakable heaven

On the rocks- a breakable heaven: A new water system and way of living for the Guadarrama mountains, in Spain.

Sanchez Jimenez, Javier (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Landscape Architecture)

Bobbink, I. (mentor)
Hackauf, U.D. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Landscape Architecture

2023-06-22

The Guadarrama mountains are a mountain range crisscrossing the Spanish highlands, dividing the historic region of Castile in two and separating the wealthy, but rampantly overbuilt region of Madrid from the rural and undeveloped Castile-and-Leon. This project explores the possibility of addressing the three main current challenges in the area (climate change, energy crisis and urbanistic disparity) through a drastic landscape intervention in the water system.

water management
Guadarrama mountains
Landscape architecture
Madrid
urbanism
Castile
Reservoir
canal
climate change mitigation
Energy Storage

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2023 Javier Sanchez Jimenez