Drawing the Water to See Rome. Cultural Landscape and Fluidity

Roma es agua. Roma y su paisaje cultural, han fascinado a los viajeros a lo largo de los siglos. El sabio uso de los materiales es ejemplo de contemporaneidad permanente gracias a su misteriosa sencillez, entre ellos, el agua, estructurante del paisaje y origen del asentamiento humano. Proponemos un viaje que desvele el espacio urbano gracias al agua. Para ello, hemos “dibujado para ver”. Hemos tratado de descifrar los códigos que hacen posible el paisaje romano y la liquidez de sus espacios. Proponemos volver a pasear por Roma, que ya será fluir, y escuchar la alegría del agua ofrecida por la piedra. Volver a mirar Roma como paisaje cultural líquido para, gracias al dibujo, desvelar su emocionante misterio.Rome is water. Constructive materials have been used with such wisdom that Rome is an example of extemporal contemporaneity. Among materials, the water, is one of the most interesting ones. We propose travelling to the heritage, to understand the essence of water as sound, flux, transparency, reflection or pressure at that time. “Seeing the water with our hands” would be as decoding the way that the cultural waterscape of Rome has been created. We have been walking around Rome during months, drawing the water of its fountains, river, aqueducts and rain, and reading and visiting different archives in order to create graphic and written information based on different scales. In the following article we show a drawn travel through water spaces. We will listen to the voice of water and understand its language.Grupo de Investigación HUM813 Arquitectura y Cultura Contemporáne