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Water Architecture

This document discusses the relationship between architecture and water, highlighting how water can provide constraints that spark architectural innovation. It explores how the projects featured negotiate the contradiction between architecture and water as a catalyst for design. These projects directly incorporate water as a critical component rather than just an aesthetic element, engaging its multiple forms functionally, physically, and transformatively. Additionally, the document notes water is fascinating at all scales and is the focus of extensive research and challenges regarding resources, hazards, and innovations.

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Water Architecture

This document discusses the relationship between architecture and water, highlighting how water can provide constraints that spark architectural innovation. It explores how the projects featured negotiate the contradiction between architecture and water as a catalyst for design. These projects directly incorporate water as a critical component rather than just an aesthetic element, engaging its multiple forms functionally, physically, and transformatively. Additionally, the document notes water is fascinating at all scales and is the focus of extensive research and challenges regarding resources, hazards, and innovations.

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Architecture + Water celebrates the extraordinary design possibilities elicited in the coupling

of these apparently contradictory entities. Although typically conceived as opposites architecture is understood as fixed and stable, while water is seen as fluid and dynamic.
The tension between architecture and water can provide the constraints and limitations
through which imaginative architecture occurs. The projects selected for this exhibit
negotiate this contradiction as the catalyst for architectural invention. These projects directly
incorporate water as a critical component in the orchestration of the design rather than
relegating it to its conventional role as an aesthetic feature - engaging its multiple forms, as
a functional, physical and transformative medium.
Water is one of the most fascinating substances in the universe from subatomic to
cosmic scales, as well as at every scale of human interest and inquiry in between.
New physical research on the water molecule appears annually in leading scientific
journalswhile global environmental change research focuses on water resources
impacts and adaptations. Water-related flood, drought, and pollution hazards
challenge communities, cities, and regions on every continent. At the same time,
water innovations are booming at each scale, from moisture sensing at precise
points in space and time to water-conserving environmental design; water policy
experiments; and modeling of complex water systems at industrial, urban, regional,
and planetary scales. Water-conserving design ranges from green roofs to rain
gardens, bioswales, xeriscape irrigation, constructed wetlands, and more

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