How Can We Restore and Reinvent the City's Water Infrastructure? How do we recover the water infrastructure of cities that are now obsolete or have fallen into disuse? How can we reinvent them in a contemporary key?

The city of Córdoba in Argentina is endowed with significant water resources, both surface and underground, traversed by waterways and canals. However, it is located in an area threatened by water stress and flooding, where access to water is a critical issue shaping territorial dynamics. Today, blue infrastructure has disappeared from the urban landscape, and surface water, when visible, is often reduced to polluted backwaters, littered with waste.

TERRITORIAL SCALE: City of Córdoba
The Territorial Project aims for a more efficient and equitable management of water resources. It identifies green areas where integrating water infrastructure with quality public spaces, urban programs, and new mobility pathways holds great transformative potential. These interventions form new parks—operational water landscapes within the city.
Recovering these corridors as new linear parks ensures two key outcomes:
1. Increased green space per inhabitant in Córdoba.
2. Reconnecting the city with its waterways.
The Water Atlas proposes six actions (Absorb – Collect – Remediate – Store – Celebrate – Produce) and eight devices, serving as a catalog of micro-infrastructure to integrate into these new spaces.

SECTORAL SCALE: Canal Maestro Sur
Over the years, Córdoba's water resources have deteriorated due to urban sprawl, lack of infrastructure maintenance, and decreased irrigation flows caused by growing potable water demand. Built in 1890, the Canal Maestro Sur was originally part of an infrastructure system designed to supply water to the city's Green Belt: the Metropolitan Area Irrigation System. However, since 1995, the canal has been completely abandoned and its condition is critical, now serving as an open sewage drain and representing an urban, environmental, and social fracture.

The Canal Maestro Sur is reimagined as a new Linear Park, divided into five experimental subsectors. Key principles include: Energy – Water - Waste – Food. The project prioritizes social sustainability by proposing new border developments that include social and collective housing and new facilities. These developments add density to the area and activate public spaces. Access and connectivity are ensured through new mass public transportation and bike lanes. Collaboration is central, involving public and private actors, local authorities, non-governmental organizations, and community users, ensuring inclusivity in planning and implementation.