E18 Portrait - Suturing water, memory and biodiversity together

Navalmoral de la Mata (ES) - Runner-up

Suturing water, memory and biodiversity together

Associates: Silvia Montesdeoca Cabrera (ES), Javier Herrera Rodríguez (ES), José Carlos Ramírez Ceballos (ES) – architects, Jorge Espinosa Morales (ES), Miranda Inman (GB) – landscape architects

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"The project repositions water, biodiversity, and memory as active resources, generating a new urban model that stitches territorial heritage into everyday life. Re-sourcing operates across multiple scales, from the territorial to the experiential, linking natural systems with social uses. Regeneration is understood as a triple action: revealing, activating, and inhabiting over time."

General plan showing key territorial strategies
Flood retention strategies and new transversal connections
Green nodes and flood prevention strategy diagrams