Recycled Wooden Museum Protects Precious Water Sources in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

With water in such short supply these days it's important to educate the public about how precious it is - and that's exactly the purpose of the Water Museum in the Lanjarón municipality of Granada, Spain. Located at a breathtaking spot at the foot of the Sierra Nevada range in Granada, the project had to be completed on a small budget, so <a href="http://www.juandomingosantos.com/">Juan Domingo Santos</a> incorporated many of the site's existing natural features, materials, and buildings into its inspiring design. Comprising two main pavilions and a third exhibition space that together take up only 478 square meters, this is a meditative venue complete with orange trees and <a href="http://inhabitat.com/solar-decathlon-2011-butterfly-roofed-watershed-house-mimics-cheseapeake-bay-ecosystem/watershed-univ-maryland-solar-decathlon-2011-4/">hydrological features</a> that allows visitors to reflect on just how important it is to take care of the world's remaining water sources.

This museum is situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Juan Domingo Santos built a Water Museum out of recycled materials taken from former abattoir buildings

This pavilion consists of the only new construction on site, along with harvested eucalyptus tree trunks

Otherwise, everything else is recycled or reused

Even the irrigation infrastructure has been incorporated into the museum

To create a series of inspiring water features

There are two pavilions and a third exhibition space

One of them incorporates a small orange tree grove

This render shows how the buildings are put together

Another view

This is what the site used to look like... a long long time ago!