Futuros jardines como laboratorios digitales frente a sequías e inundaciones

Abstract

While the value of some productive land is to be tamed by infrastructural works of man-made canals that control rivers or give security measures with rigid dikes, there are other terrains -neglected land, parcels of land left behind or protective territories where biodiversity is preserved- that could be a place for an experimental field which works on early warning systems that help to prevent floods and droughts. How could we design a garden as an open-air digital laboratory? It would show how dynamic defences such as landform mounds would stop gradually water (L); it would reveal how water is hidden from view running through our pipes in the urban context (F); and it would prove how water could be concentrated in different scales by marshlands, ponds and cisterns (W). Representation, parametric tools and digital construction (CNC) are three steps of a full-scale data model for new landforms of garden shifting from planar and rigid understanding into more volumetric and dynamic surfaces.