le jardin de la cascade
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00:24 This great horizon in front of you has become the city in less than 200 years, while it was a arid hill leading to Marseille.
00:30 Just below, the Egalade district, on the right, the Vistre, and if you lower your eyes, guess what we can hardly imagine walking at the foot of the platans?
00:39 The Egalade stream, the subject of the dream of the collective of the Gamars.
00:43 Stream. We call it stream because this little name reflects how much we love it, but scientists call it a coastal river.
00:51 It flows into the sea and takes root near the coast. A little higher, on the heights of Septembre, the valleys, at 230 meters of altitude.
00:58 But up there, some of these waters are retained. These are the five affluent who help it flow still today in its bed.
01:05 To them all, it seems to imitate the nerves of a tree leaf and sometimes, joined by rainwater, on their journey, it gives life.
01:13 We are the team of waterfowl. We take care of the maintenance of the waterfall, the garden and all the facilities for the city.
01:24 We have work to do and all that. We take care of it.
01:35 The stream itself is like the receptacle of all the waters of a geographic space called a "stream".
01:44 We humans realized that if we wanted to take care of a watercourse, the scale of the water flow was insufficient and that it was necessary to enlarge its understanding of the hydrological circuits.
01:57 A "stream" is a geographic space that feeds a watercourse and this watercourse drains this geographic space and evacuates its waters by bringing them further,
02:07 whether to the sea or to another watercourse. It is therefore all this space that will make the ecological, sanitary quality of life of the waterfowl.
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02:37 The overall project we have proposed is the "Arts of the Cree". It is about thinking about the entire water system at the scale of the city of the Arts of the Cree.
02:49 That is to say, to see how all this water is received, how it transits and how it ends up in the stream.
03:03 The system that has been found is this pump system. It remains an artifice where electricity is used to bring water up,
03:12 but it allows us to have this waterfall and that this waterfall tells this story of the missing waters of the stream.
03:19 It also allows us to oxygenate the water and to refresh it a little bit in the moments of dryness.
03:26 The project of the waterfall is a bit of a manifest element. It is about how here, in the city of the Arts of the Cree,
03:33 we deal with these issues of rejuvenation and that it is with the spirit of the city that we question these ecological issues with a lot of freedom.
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