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Water cities represent an extraordinary laboratory for design research. The presence of a river provides a significant context for experimenting with environmental and urban regeneration practices. This investigation focuses specifically on the architecture/landscape system, acknowledging a strong and specific relationship between settlement structures, territorial infrastructures, and land-use forms. This volume gathers the outcomes of several design explorations addressing the connection between settlement systems and river environments: projects for the revitalization of Belgrade’s aquatic landscape, the village of Hongkeng (Fujian), and the Entrepeñas-Sacedón Dam (Castilla-La Mancha). In these three contexts, potential interdependent relationships are tested across different scales, between river and city, Nature and Architecture; introducing new interpretations of the intermediate, indeterminate, dynamic, and mutable space that separates two morphological, functional, and symbolic orders, which are typically autonomous and self-referential: the natural and the constructed. The river is considered an “architectural fact” capable of defining territorial and urban forms. The search for new grammars of form for contemporary cities, grounded in a renewed relationship with Nature, aims to express a new urbanity that recognizes empty space as a resource, where the values of rural and urban will increasingly blur.
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