Como Agua de Mayo

"The project was dreamed as a telling of a main character: the Water. The Water begins to blur the Chinese social classes. As a common point in the Chinese Culture, Water can grant new roles to the different players in the tale, resulting all the social conditions forgotten.

Water was deliberately chosen as protagonist because of the deep meaning in the Chinese culture. Asiatic traditions believe in the spiritual significance of the Water, one of the Five Elements in the Chinese philosophy.

Moreover, Water is essential at the project’s emplacement: The proposed site is related to the Grand Canal in Hangzhou City, an axis which articulate the city. In this way, Water works as an element for generate the landscape and the social respect. The landscape sprouts around the water seeds, which become blossoms of Architecture, proposing a new traditional model that create social identity. Consequently, Chinese society could get back their trust in the local Architecture.

The tale over the project describe a process experienced by the Water along 15 Chapters, until all new Chinese characters would be joined around a Water Landscape, which is sustainable in two essential ways: social and environmental, full of symbolism and tradition."