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Water processing systems (draining, filtering, isolating, irrigating, channelling) are based on a reduced scope of parameters of determination and encapsulated in tight regulations, segregating the efficiency in the infrastructure from the wider and more complex architectural fields with which it interacts. Systemic stiffness and organizational linearity result of this tendency. The compensatory trend in architecture has traditionally been to confront this inertia by dividing domains of expertise, controlling the effects of water infrastructure by its exclusion, representation, idealization, and/or ornamentation in building structures, thus reinforcing architectural expertise but emptying out its techniques from material and performative constraints. Hydrotypes approaches such tendency with a strategy of decodification, open systemic embracement, and organizational exaggeration, breaking down, multiplying, integrating, synthetizing, and recodifying systemic constraints. The Studio aims at the invention of new devices of water infrastructure capable to broaden the architectural potentials of water management systems.