Date: 2004/2009

Location: Barcelos, Portugal

Area: 73.380 sqm

Client: Municipality of Barcelos

Project Coordinators:
João Ferreira Nunes, Carlos Ribas

Project Collaborators:
Nuno Mota, Sílvia Basílio, Claudia La Spada, Alessandro Micucci, Iacopo Perfetti, Marco Pietrosanto

Architecture:
Iñaki Zoilo

Photography:
Diogo Bento

The intervention area is a nuclear area, very important for the implementation of a new and desired relation between the City and the River, which would enable a direct and easy connection to the Centre, as well as secondary, but determinant, connections to important areas of the city. The construction of a boardwalk along the river will generate extensions upstream and downstream and enunciates the resumption of the connection to the opposite shore and to the fluvial beach on the south. The proposal sets a number of essential goals, in search of a complete answer to the questions posed by the intervention objectives: to establish the necessary formal and function unification of the space, and its unity with the city and the river, to recover the pre-existent valuable elements by dignifying them, to implement the correct management of the vegetative cover through the clarification of the covering typologies related to certain situations-type and precise objectives, simplifying the maintenance processes, thus enabling the continuity of the projected system.