The landscape approach responds to an understanding of the park as a living system with a series of natural processes already taking place there and which our proposal tries to use as structural elements of the project. A hydrologic system capable to receive, retain and infiltrate enough water for its own irrigation and to consolidate its forest structure but at the same time, conscious of this limited resource, allows large extensions of vegetation and seasonal pasturelands. So this way the park turns didactic too.
The detention, retention and infiltration of the rainwater are obtained by locating barriers or dry lakes in the main runoffs of this basin as they pass through the park. These boards have been treated as earth-works conferring a sculptural sense to these temporary ponds. The lake, besides the recreational potential it will offer, will be able to retain enough rainwater to irrigate 25 Acres per day during the dry season. Irrigation will be done using the same runoffs treated as bio-infiltration zones turning them into green, humid and leafy trails.
