Tiber Waterscapes
Tracing, intercepting, nurturing urban water lines
D. Della Pietra (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
A.S. Alkan – Mentor (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
M.G. Vink – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
J.A. van de Voort – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architectural Engineering)
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Abstract
In our effort to control it, water in our cities has progressively been confined between lines, canalised or culverted underground, resulting in its gradual isolation and erasure from our sight and collective imagination. As freshwater availability and water-related hazards are brought to the forefront of sustainable development goals, the long-neglected role of urban rivers and their watershed needs to be addressed. Tiber Waterscapes is an attempt to re-imagine the complex relationship between Rome and its primary river, the River Tiber, at the point along its course where it historically intersected River Almone, within the Gasholder park "Ostiense". This polluted post-industrial area is transformed into a wastewater treatment park and thermal bath complex, with ecological, cultural and social value.