Paisaje Ciego, vestigios del agua en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile.

Blind Landscape is the name of a artistic exhibition, that was the result of a colaborative residence, developed in Cahcha Santiago, in this experience was looking the reinterpretation for the old cartography of the water courses located it in the historic part of the city; using as method, a serie of walkig tours, for to go at the finding of the vestiges associated to the captation, distribution and storage of a lot of aquifers, wich in a past gave water to the buildings of the city, and which today lie in abandonment, concealed and hidden under cement and the modern constructions. As result, this reserch revealed the existence of aquifers ruins in a impressive condition, some of them still preserve plentiful groundwater. These ruins contain the potential of documenting the national heritage of water and this is to give visibility and return to rebuild it, generating a critical reflection on the history, transformations and the evolution of the waters in the región.

Keywords:

Memory , Water , Cartography , Walk , Ruin

Author Biography

Camila Kuncar Ríos, Madrid, Spain

Arquitecta de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile. Participó en el año 2010 del Laboratorio de Arte Urbano Stalker, Observatorio Nómada. Académica durante el año 2012 del Curso de Formación General “Territorios Cruzados” basado en el proyecto homónimo que contó con el patrocinio de la Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación (UNIACC) y Universidad de Chile, desarrollando el tópico de las exploraciones urbanas.

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How to Cite

Kuncar Ríos, C. (2017). Blind Landscape, waters vestiges in Santiago, Chile. Revista De Arquitectura, 22(33), Pág. 49–57. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5427.2017.47695