Brief: To mark Parking Day Mexico 2015, LIMÓNagua converted a parking space into a human space, giving the opportunity for passersby, even for just one day, to take precedence over automobiles. The proposal consists of 70 pallets stacked strategically to generate a hydraulic system in which water can be pumped manually to simulate the complex process of bringing water to Mexico City.


Complete Review: LIMÓNagua is a collective installation which addresses the access to water issue with no other goal than self-reflection about it, with two action lines : play and water trajectory.


Those concepts become in experience and action, to be integrated into a space, which aims to be a point to stay and meeting to the visitors become in the main character of the installation. On one side it’s a lemonade stand that rememb-ers childhood, that traditional custom done on the front yards. This custom integrates community through a simple and temporary activity related with water, which by adding lemon flavor becomes attractive to the neighbors.


The other side of the installation is contrasted to the lemonade stand, when we talk about the water as a trajectory this turn into a serious issue. It is represented by hydraulic system that works carrying water from the highest point to a pond on the lowest point through gravity.


Water is a finite resource, then visitors should in a manual way, pump water back to the highest point, to find through this action, self-reflection about the 124 kilometers to pump mechanically water by the Cutzamala System to a faucet in a single house in Mexico City to 2250 meters above sea level.


In this way LIMÓNagua becomes on something more than a game and trajectory, it’s an experience talking about natural and artificial concepts , the consciousness and unconsciousness can be explored in this space defined by 70 pallets stacked to make the lemonade stand , to promote gather and conversation on seats surrounded by vegetation and a pond like a main view that close this integral intervention to action and visitor experience .


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