Date: 2007
Location: Oporto, Portugal 
Area: 335 500 m2
Client: Porto Vivo - S.R.U.
International Ideas Competition 1st Prize
Project coordinators:
João Ferreira Nunes, Carlos Ribas
Project collaborators:
Nuno Jacinto, Federico Molfetta, Jan Derveaux, Iñaki Zoilo, Tiago Coelho
Urbanism coordination:
Marcel Smets
Architecture:
Pedro Balonas, Marc Boehler
Urbanism:
Plus Office
Included in the wider concept of urban requalification, the project for te new Waterfront in Oporto has in terms of project-scale a quite elastic approach: it moves with master lines. Between the territorial and local scales in the both meanings of understanding the place, locality analysis, made in parts throughout the 3.5 km length of the waterfront, and the projectual response.
The project underlines basically two aspects: at first the strategic characteristics of the solution, not easy to be concretized due to the great difference between the high number of projects along the waterfront, further reason to connect the project to mainly to a territorial scale; secondly, it demonstrates how the solution proposed, thanks exactly to its being related to the territorial scale, manages to find easily the impanation in architectonical and landscape scale projects.