- Site-specific cases
The project aims to recover the cultural value from the landscape and to enable evolution through time, in which nature would create the intervention itself. Allowing the perception of the subtle threshold between the untouched and the intervened areas.
Maintaining the local cultures is one of the main objectives of the project. Research and design of public areas - specially focused on areas with historical background - are, therefore, rich fields of investigation.
By believing that urbanism plays a huge role on the construction of the human behaviour and will form the world that we live in, it is possible to see the true potential on impacting communities that, nowadays, are vulnerable to an urban densification and predatory tourism.
In another perspective, the park was developed to stimulate a cultural rescue using remaining industrial infrastructures. This approach also emphasises the importance of exploring idle areas that suffered prior industrial breakage.
Baixamar. Traditional fishing expression that symbolises low tides.
Structure and Time
Tradition through time.
Scenarios of investigations: volumes and sand dunes, plans and vegetation mass, lines and paths to lagoons.
The elements of intervention.
