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WaterWorks: AWTP
Advanced Water Treatment Plant
WaterWorks: AWTP is at the end of a water reclamation process where for the first time in the United States, wastewater, in stages, is recycled into water for human consumption. Artist Robert Millar, in response to the provocative program (wastewater to drinking water) high visibility of the chosen project site (overlooking a major vehicular corridor into San Diego), and the general lack of consideration given to infrastructure projects decided to pursue architecture as the public art component of the project. Millar in collaboration with Guthrie+Buresh Architects comprised the art team and considered:
Technological legibility vs.
camouflage.
Roman aqueducts and
Parisian sewers.
American taming of waterways.
Domestication of the arid southwest.
Infrastructure and conventional civic monuments:
City Hall, Museum, Courthouse, Library, Theatre, Power Plants, Telephone Switching Stations, Landfills, WaterWorks.
WaterWorks: AWTP is an architectural response to:
The political, psychological and technological challenge of recycling wastewater.
The consumption and control of the water supply in an arid region.
The importance and necessity of visible civic infrastructure.
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