Honourable Mention International Prize, Connatural

Echoes of Water, Colombia

Motivation of the jury. The project Echoes of water shows how the effects of climate change are affecting neighbourhoods and is having a massive impact on the built environment across the world but in the aftermath the repairs of the damage can be used to address the existing weaknesses by providing quality public spaces for the future.

While the project is necessarily addressing the high-water protection of the buildings and roads through infrastructure measures like a protecting wall and the reparation of damage on road and landscape it provides a flooding reservoir to engineer the consequences of high water and flooding. Furthermore, these necessary measures have been implemented to create conditions to open the area to the benefit of public use.

The description refers to coexistence of botanical, animal, and human populations ensuring the Exchange of natural flows and standing as a metaphor for what emerges unfolds and grows naturally grounded in the naturalization of cultural actions.

Thus, the impact of future extreme weather conditions are not only being addressed in a technical infrastructure but will make accessible the passersby as well as the local residents for relaxation and to meet each other.