The work focuses on the relationship between the hydrographic network and the inhabited territories, in the Ter River area in Catalonia. Through fluvial geomorphology and drawing, the work identifies three different sections in the course of the Lower Ter. A more detailed study of the three segments is carried out through the analysis of three historical canals, one for each of the sections defined above. The canals represent the part of the river from which they derive and, at the same time, three stories of human construction of the place, three ‘hydraulic signs’ – canals, buildings and infrastructures linked to the water use – historically adapted to the characteristics of the terrain in which they settle. The hydraulic traces possess (and generate) specific morphologies that this study proposes as assets (devices) of transformation to construct the habitability of the crossed territories. This article presents in detail the middle section of the Lower Ter – from Celrà to Sant Jordi Desvalls, in the province of Girona – through the study of the Vinyals irrigation canal. The project of territorial transformation and valuation reads in the ditch the support of the ‘new fluvial façade’ of the most recent urban expansion.

Caterina, Anastasia
Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD); Lisbon School of Architecture; Universidade de Lisboa

 
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