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Bypass channel
Essential in building the little lake was the understanding of topology, water flow and vegetation. The canal at Fano flowed for about a mile and then disappeared underground as the terrain descended towards the sea, about 8 miles away.
The lake was built at a point just before the stream disappeared underground. Most importantly a bypass channel had to be made, which allowed water to flow uninterrupted while the earth was excavated for what was to become the lake bottom and for later maintenance and cleaning.
The process of building the lake lasted three years. The core of the process was to leave selected areas to overgrow in the winter after intense work in the summer and in the following summer to take cues from nature for determining the next step in building the lake.
Not unlike our process in a number of other community partnerships and much like the creation of collaborative performances at the Artship Dance/Theater where once a thematic focus is chosen, the contextual perimeters set and the structural and dramatic outcomes sketched, the narration and the story grow organically out of all the processes involved.
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