La misteriosa historia del jardín que produce agua

Known as “El Coso”, the place was a great void at the back of the old part of Cehegín (Murcia, Spain).

With beautiful views on the landscape, it was a mess of disconnected streets with height differences, uninhabitable for its steep slopes. Besides this, the area seemed to lack inhabitable gardens, and the city needs to breathe through them. To achieve a garden would require large amounts of water, in a region with limited water resources.

We located the "desire paths", of the neighbours. By tracing those paths on the ground, the streets on the borders were connected by using comfortable slopes.

We collect the rain water and the waste water from the sewing network in the high part of the site. The waste water goes along the pond network with riparian plants that filter and clean it. This water is used to irrigate the rest of the plants in the garden. We obtain recycled water for irrigating an inhabitable garden. This situation attracts local fauna.

We hid a building in a pocket of the walk path. The building gives its roof to the park. The Municipality decided to dedicate this building to host a business incubator.

The result is a garden that produces water, where flora attracts fauna; cats, frogs, swifts, pigeons, and a number of different kinds of insects contribute with their movements and sounds to those produced by the leaves, water and the neighbours in their constant walking through "El Coso" to the other side.

In this video you can see the construction of "The mysterious story of the garden that makes water".