STRUCTURING ESTUARIES: Green Infrastructure for Guanabara Bay’s primordial drain areas.
Mestrado Profissional em Arquitetura da Paisagem - MPAP - Landscape Architecture Professional Master Program
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO - UFRJ - FEDERAL UNIVESITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
In the Guanabara Bay five river drainage zones correspond to 82.86% of the total freshwater inputs of the bay. Such drainage areas are concentrated in three estuaries at the bottom of the water body. Based on this, Structuring Estuaries proposes design interventions in the three major estuaries, areas of extreme relevance for the renewal of
waters of Guanabara Bay.
Through the use of graphic and cartographic analyzes, this research aims to demonstrate by metrics and diagrams on the Landscape Planning scale, the territorial complexity and hydrological peculiarities of the Guanabara Bay that make it a structural component, both environmental and cultural, of the surrounding landscape.
Complementarily, in this document for the Barcelona Biennial, the intervention for one of these three estuaries is briefly presented: the Iguaçu Estrela river estuary, which corresponds to 32.42% of the ammount of freshwater that flows into the bay.