The Ciudades de Agua is one of five themed pavilions present at Expo Zaragoza 2008 dedicated to the theme of water and sustainable development. In particular, this pavilion, developed thanks to the Italian, deepens the relationship between the city and the water with the aim to understand that visitors to improve the quality of life must recognize the presence of water and a central role both in the innovative restoration and redevelopment of existing, As in the design of new urban centers.
Water has been in the history of the city a vital constituent factor, promoting balanced development of its tissue, as well as affirmation of their good fortune and wealth. The contemporary city has instead often placed in danger or even tampered with this important heritage, mean physical, cultural.
The pavilion
The exhibition space of the pavilion, opened on 14 June 2008, consists of a journey-path, into five sections, where the water, from time to time, is considered under a different aspect of his relationship with the city: that of the spectacular, the friendly relationship, its leading role in the processes of urban restructuring, its essential function in important future urban developments.
A trip around the world, that touches 80 city (a reference to the book by Jules Verne, in the 180 th anniversary of his birth) and ends here in a special room in Zaragoza, that the Expo has recovered part of its territory, next to the river, far left in abandonment.
Of “architect by profession”
