Tiber Waterscapes

Tiber Waterscapes: Tracing, intercepting, nurturing urban water lines

Della Pietra, Diana (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Alkan, A.S. (mentor)
Vink, M.G. (mentor)
van de Voort, J.A. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2022-06-30

In our effort to control it, water in our cities has progressively been confined between lines, canalised or culverted underground, resulting in its gradual isolation and erasure from our sight and collective imagination. As freshwater availability and water-related hazards are brought to the forefront of sustainable development goals, the long-neglected role of urban rivers and their watershed needs to be addressed. Tiber Waterscapes is an attempt to re-imagine the complex relationship between Rome and its primary river, the River Tiber, at the point along its course where it historically intersected River Almone, within the Gasholder park "Ostiense". This polluted post-industrial area is transformed into a wastewater treatment park and thermal bath complex, with ecological, cultural and social value.

Urban Water
Rome
Post-industrial landscape
Wastewater treatment
nature-culture

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Student theses

master thesis

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