To start the week we would like to share with you an example of sustainable architecture of an action in the landscape. Lots of you alredy know, it it the water retention landscape of Tamera, Portugal.
This is more than a natural dam, Tamera is a peace investigation centre. Here you have all the information: www.tamera.org
The water retention landscape of Tamera is an example that for AKTUA is remarkable: how the intervention of the human being can create an ecologic ecosystem. From a sustainable architecture as an action in the landscape systems of natural life begins and a natural space regenerates.
In the water retention landscape of Tamera from the investigators Sepp Holzer y Bernd Mueller, from the creation of a lake with natural systems, a community and a a sustainable area is created.
In an area with risk of desertification a dam is built with natural systems, digging to get a waterproof level of soil, the consequences can be seen in the film and they are very impressive. The water from the rain that can not be retained neither absorbed by the dry soil, now it is accumulated and regenerates the area: it influences the underground water, the vegetation recuperates and the community can cultivate around the water, water also regulates the weather and there is not so many differences between summer and winter.
Could be this a solution for our forest? In the Mediterranean interior area rain is not very common in the last periods and the forest are completely dry. Many fires are rasing them and we are losing our natural landscape. The area is becoming a waste land.
The video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-FpXvI-Sn8
