site plan

With extreme rains of up to 200 mm in a short period, 60% of the city is flooded in less than 1 hour.

In this context, km3 focuses on making the problem visible, maintaining water as a transforming element within the city, returning its identity with the succession of different territorial scales about the community, and dissolving the limits between infrastructure/society/territory.

The project provides an answer to extreme water situations in cities around the world subject to storm floods

Shots

innovating a new typology of multi-scale water infrastructure, combining existing urban infrastructures and relating them to water, in favour of society’s pleasure. Each element of km3 is designed to be located in large urban voids, train tracks, railway beaches, and military areas. Replicable in a global context, subjected to water stress.