Architectural Design Archive
Hijes del agua
The proposal to understand what the client asks of us: a project for a future time where there will be a rise in sea level. And this cannot be developed without speculating on the society from which architecture will start in this context.
That is why Hijes del Agua appears as an anthropological portal that takes off from a radicalized movement due to global saturation, which will restructure the hierarchy of nature by assimilating water as the creative and sustaining mother element of life. That by analogy to God, it must be understood as infinite, which in it is extrapolated to a cyclical operation, a concept that will be handled by developed architecture.

The project begins with the creation of this social space, and its increase in scale at the level of commitment will take center stage:

A first level is a sewing project of the territorial, political and social fracture that will occur between the Line of the Conception and Gibraltar, an isthmus that will be flooded but we can save with recycled material from the famous Port of Algeciras also flooded, with which A space formed by a container structure is generated, which hangs from opposite port cranes, which will unite the new island with the peninsula, thus forming a new concept with great assertive potential, of how to understand border borders.

Moving forward in the scale of commitment, the inclusion of microprojects that may affect a key foundation of hijes del agua, which is the support in the symbiosis of technology and traditional knowledge, will appear that in this case we will take the developments during the history of Cádiz. These include new portable multifunctional agriculture systems, automated oyster farming from high tides, reduced vertical wind turbines in bird damage, generators and energy collectors supplying the nearest city, and research support technologies such as radio telescopes, new conservation systems and laboratories completely self-sufficient at an energy level, for example the geothermal one.

At the maximum level of commitment is the definitive work, a terminal whose objective is to minimize the physical impact and all the internal human problems that this entails obtaining, the somatic existence of human infrastructure. Carrying out a mental digitization project to reach a new multiverse where to conserve and develop human consciousness, and the massive cryogenization of miles of bodies. All this is based on the geolocation of the previous microprojects in the Laguna de la Medina that will be invaded by salt water, but will serve to generate an enhancement of the ecosystem and that the macroproject will be embedded in the middle of the two waters that will populate it.