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There are changes that continuously demand certain adaptation; however, these opportunities to rethink reality have never been too many nor have they had such a global impact. We are witnesses to a cycle closing; we face a scenario of ecological, economic, and social crisis. ¿Which type of architecture do these new conditions demand? At this point, what is left is the action, being aware of the phenomena is no longer enough.If crisis means opportunity for change, what comes next is evolution, innovation in favor of more sustainable, flexible, diverse, and integrating architectures.SED is a typological essay developing in the interdisciplinary scope of ecology, landscape, urbanism, and architecture. It means renovation of energy infrastructure as well as formulation of new matter and energy management systems and their hybridization with other programs, suggesting a new definition of public sphere.Today, one third of world population lives in areas with some kind of water shortage, and that proportion isexpected to increase to two thirds in 2025 and to three thirds in 2050. According to several research, waterusage has increased six times last century, twice the population rise, even though a modest part of global water resources is utilized for human consumption and hygiene (10). 70 of resources are used to produce food and the remaining percentage is used in industrial processes, hydroelectricity, and cooling processed forthermal power plants. 97.5 of water in our planet is salty, and only less than 1 is suitable for human consumption.Desalinating seawater is one potential solution to drinking water shortage.Desalination plants, known as water factories, are seen as the new alternative to worldwide shortage problems. These plants should approach environmental and political consequences, and humanitarian problems related to obtaining freshwater for a region. It is known that the employment of chemical methods to get it implies an excessive energy consumption increasing excessively production costs and producing saline residue, which alters coastal marine ecosystems.SED/system explores desalination of water via natural methods. Energetically self-sufficing it will spread over maritime platforms of cities that require so as a constant manifestation of what is evident, as a full attribute of reality where what matters is the proceeding which recalls past mistakes that otherwise would kept hidden. SED SISTEMA is represented by a symbol, an extension of horizon, a new architecture that not only produces water but also raises awareness and educates through accessibility from manufacturing todomestic, public and egalitarian perspective. With this in mind, we can look each other with the greatness of self-criticism and tell ourselves that there are mistakes which cannot be repeated, hoping that man becomes a man again and does not becomes a wild animal able to exterminate their surrounding environment.

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