“Project for an acqueduct”

The San Giovanni abandoned mining park counts a thick net of galleries, excavated at various altitudes on a mountain. The Groundwater of the area has been constantly polluted by the mining industry, making it not suitable for human use anymore. Due to the high level of humidity and the large temperature gap within the outside, the moist contained in the air constantly condense inside the galleries during both summer and winter. In this project, I imagined eight of the mouths of those mine galleries to be equipped with a humidity harvesting system, made out of a steel frame wrapped with a specifi cally designed net. Through the usage of eight independent pipes the so collected water can then be transported to the valley, along the same path and till the same place minerals used to do to be loaded into trains. In ‘Project for an aqueduct’ I tried to recover some of the signs and scars left in the area by the mining industry by retracing and turning them again into places of a new production. WATER PRODUCTION..