Walking on Water

The protection of the largest aquifer on the Iberian Peninsula, located on the Setubal Peninsula, is the subject of a landscape project that not only transforms the rural landscape of the area in question, but also the approach to managing agricultural activities in peri-urban areas. This landscape reorganisation project aims to reduce wind action within the area under consideration by modifying the upper layers of the soil and vegetation, thereby promoting a decrease in evapotranspiration from the fields. A bocage follows the drainage lines and interstices of the cadastral design, extending across the public space as a highly valuable ecological continuum. This green structure is capable of revolutionising the landscape surrounding the Moita area by intensifying biodiversity whilst promoting ecological continuity. This approach could also be the starting point for a metamorphosis of the city, taking on an urban version through the continuity of public transport and socio-environmental connections within cities.