Water:City
5th Semester Project
Puerto Pinasco 2050
Last year - Urban Design
Urban planning guidelines as a means for flood attenuation in the Middle Basin of Mburicao Creek.
Final Graduate Assigment
Responding to the rapid growth Aregua, the masterplan focuses on the resources of water and its influence on the history of the town. The Architectural project is developed around an old abandoned pipes factory, an icon of the local ancestral tradition ceramic tradition, aiming to revitalize it as a museum, opening the subterranean channels which connected the ovens to the chimney so people can walk through them. Moreover, a civic center is annexed to enclose a plaza in which the main character is water, the founding element of the city.
Masterplan of Aregua
Public spaces connections
The Chaco, a region with one of the highest biodiversities of the world, represents 64% of the Paraguayan territory but is home to only 4% of its population due to the predominance of farming and agricultural activity. From a country-scale analysis, Puerto Pinasco is found as a strategic point to connect the east and west of Paraguay, proposing a sustainable model of urbanization, more inclined to respectfully co-exist with its indigenous population and natural surroundings.
For this purpose, the local production of knowledge through active collaborations is found as an ideal tool to develop a sustainable local economy.
Puerto Pinasco is envisioned to develop into an Intermediate city by the year 2050, self-sustainable in the procurement of energy and food, acting as a link between metropolitan and rural scale and enabling more efficient distribution of resources and infrastructure.
“The capacity of indigenous societies to live in harmony with its surroundings can teach us to create new, more humane societies”
-Mito Sequera. Anthropologist.Puerto Pinasco’s fluvial front Old Tannin Factory Food security Renewable energy Natural resources & Risk managment
Floods in Puerto Pinasco come both from the rise of the river level, as from the stagnation of rainwater. Connectivity infrastructure is used to block the entrance of water coming from the river, and a series of detention and retention ponds manage the rainwater, giving place to a wide range of possible activities and later treating it and storing it in the riverfront, also serving to prevent the erosion soil, caused by the big barges that past through.
This was a research inclined work aimed at defining guidelines, composed of stragies and a series of specific actions that would have the capacity to fix the existing vulnerability to stormwater that the city of Asunción suffers.
URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT
USEOF RAINWATER INFILTRATION CONDUCTION
RECOVERY OFTHE RIVER ENVIRONMENT
RIVER-URBAN ECOSYSTEM PUBLICSPACES
PublicDecanalizationofPiped
PROTECTIONOFTHERIVERENVIRONMENT
Reforestationoftheriverbankprotectionmargin SlopeUpdatingtheRegulatoryPlantocreateforests stabilizationwithbioengineeringtechniques
