Name: Artemis Rovoli
Track: Architecture
Studio: Architectural Design Crossovers
Year: MSc 3/4 / 2025
Type: Graduation Project
Tutor: Roberto Cavallo, George Karvelas, Joran Kuijper
Description:
The thesis proposes the transformation of two fountains into public pools, addressing the city's residents’ needs for leisure and. The intervention reclaims water as a shared urban resource for people to experience, while offering accessibility and public space next to the city’s forgotten Manzanares river. Additionally, it programmatically and volumetrically enhances the surroundings of the Puente de Segovia site. This is done by adding a water management and sanitation research centre and a wastewater treatment plant. In this way, the water that is being treated and studied is later used for the public pools and the irrigation of the whole intervention.