The great arch created is closed by a sliding double door, each 9.20m high and 1.80 wide, located on the inner side of the wall. The door is made of perforated sheet steel 2mm V folded without inner grid and hanging on a top rail that helps the consolidation of the existing arc. The result is a light and continuous veil through which images and sounds are filtered water allowing urban continuity between the source and the street outside, day and night at times which is closed to control. The source reproduces the plant and about the idea of container of water, but this time by identifying content and container. It is built by glass walls Azurre 19mm stacked and secured through transparent resin materials. The container fits almost entirely the cistern which became in the middle Ages and the flow of water overflowing overflow refers to the original still preserved.
Since the input image is reduced to a horizontal plane of glass and water whose boundaries are lost where the perception of the mud walls and stone retaining walls begins? Its height allows the perception from outside flooded space. Between the water level and the perimeter walls, the floor becomes first glass staircase steps and then, slowly leading us to the opposite end. There, once below the water surface (reference of the original level), we discover a space near a well. A large air bubble used as an interpretive space, where the three main distributing pouring water appear. Here at the end of this brief and intense journey begins Raudal history of Magdalena.

Assessment
After many alterations and modifications of operation in the last ten centuries, we inherit a palimpsest of difficult reading that had lost its physical relationship with citizens, the civil service, to its permanent closure. This places the proposed architecture in a field of interesting discussion: the need to extend the concept of public space. For this it is necessary to review the conceptual boundaries between contemporary public space, water infrastructure, public fountain and cultural facilities.
Similarly, it was necessary to rethink the concept of recovery and ask how to integrate the latter layer from contemporaneity, the need to recover the essential value of putting in place the remains found value. The project interprets each other offering the same validity to all strata found, validity is based on the capacity of each piece to explain the events that have built up over the centuries. In this regard, the bill provides an overall assessment of history as a single process.
In this sense, the materiality of water has given us its associated both symbolic and conceptual value protagonist of urban development. Stone, responsible for centuries to contain the land and preserve the space that water needs to be offered, lent us their constructive system. Glass has finally given us the ability to receive both loans and provide experience which means soaking in the history of this place.

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