Regenerative Ruins: Reevaluating and implementing decentralized freshwater harvesting techniques as a tool to transform decaying monuments in the urban context of Willemstad, Curaçao

As freshwater scarcity has become one of the most important environmental and social issues of the 21st century, the way the built environment interacts with water must be reconsidered. Today’s urban water cycle in Curaçao is characterized by linear, centralized, polluting, costly, time and energy consuming and does not contribute to cultural...