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Silén, Rivera Jorge Andrés. "Transforming the waterfront." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115619.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged student-submitted from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 72).
OUR relation with nature develops from an early age. The built environment, the food we eat and the pictures we see nurture and influence our ways of inhabiting the landscape and how that landscape inhabits our imagination and our conception of place. How we experience nature during the course of our lives inevitably shapes our understanding of it. In the Caribbean, the overall colonial history reveals patterns of settlement around the waterfront which function as physical formulations for social segregation and reclusiveness, disregarding public access and mixing. Whether for military purposes, or as a result of an economy heavily based on tourism the urban conditions showcase a deliberate and consistent public inaccessibility to the waterfront consequence of a politically imposed order. The urban logics of San Juan displays the immense distances between the majority of local inhabitants and the privilege few that coexists with the waterfront. The key word here is isolation. An island within an island. The context disappears. An old colonial fortress, a highway, huge apartment complexes, hotels and environmental pollution estrange the inhabitant from its immediate context. A social and cultural understanding of the waterfront emerges and with it a particular subject. In this scheme, the sea is for an outsider, a tourist or anyone who is willing to play or pay for such a role, even as a local. Far from reality, a paradise materializes: the Island of Enchantment where everything else disappears. New coastal challenges broad about by climate change cannot be avoided when proposing an alternate scheme which renders the waterfront accessible. This imposes paradoxical challenges. There is a tension between accessibility to resources and defense, between ecological rehabilitation and existing communities, between canceling out a threatening global phenomena and the definition of a world without exteriority. The project takes advantage of the local particularities of the existing ecological system and utilizes the mangrove forest as a locally produced defense system and a space making opportunity with which to negotiate these tensions. It aims to make visible and accessible a new epistemological space, by incorporating a research center, and incorporating scenarios in which accessibility to resources, in this case fish, can trigger a possible new relationship between the concreteness of the built environment and the construction of an alternative political order.
by Jorge Andrés Silén Rivera.
M. Arch.
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Elosúa, Maria (Maria D. ). 1965. "A dry waterfront." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65709.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-76).
by Maria Elosua.
M.C.P.
M.S.
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Au-Yeung, Sin-man Angie. "Sai Kung town waterfront redevelopment." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2595135x.
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Edun, Najiyah. "Productive spoils : retooling Detroit's waterfront." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100247.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, February 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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With the recent strain of environmental disasters associated with poor environmental planning and the crash of the economic system that had propped up this type of development, it is clear that architecture's relationship to nature needs to be rethought. The thesis uses the waterfront of Detroit as a test site for an integrated system based on ecological principles of interdependency, indeterminacy and time-based processes. The proposal situates itself in opposition to the urban development laid on top of the land and its application in current form to a new, so called "green" recreational riverwalk, which still relies on the hard engineering that has destroyed Detroit's native wetlands. Instead, this thesis proposes a soft infrastructure which synthesizes solutions for water retention and environmental enrichment along the coastline, based on the natural patterns of drainage landforms, and with human development tightly integrated within the system. This system is modulated to balance different degrees of environmental, technical and economic priorities, layered throughout the waterfront to not only create a comprehensive storm defense system but also to provide new places for recreation, urban farming and urban development.
by Najiyah Edun.
M.Arch.
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Ziesemann, Rodney P. (Rodney Paul) 1967. "Built waterfront through edge, connection, and exchange : reclaiming a waterfront for Greenpoint, a project in Brooklyn, N.Y." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71102.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101).
Currently the waterfront of Brooklyn N.Y. between the Gowanus Canal of Redhook and the Newton Creek of Greenpoint is predominantly lined with various types of industrial and manufacturing uses. Scattered throughout are abandoned warehouses, industrial buildings, empty fenced off lots, and dilapidated piers. Occasionally there exists a publicly accessible edge or a inhabited waterfront. Most if not all of the adjacent communities have lost their historic connection with the edge and waterfront. Greenpoint is an active community which suffers from an industrial abandoned waterfront. This investigation is attempting to prove that the lost connection between the community of Greenpoint and its waterfront can be reclaimed through building a physical exchange between water and earth.
by Rodney P. Ziesemann.
M.Arch.
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Wong, Wing-yee. "Redevelopment of waterfront landscape in Stanley, Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25950605.
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Mills, Robert Kemp. "The city and its waterfront an urban edge." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23146.
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Montalto, Anthony Olindo. "Redefining the edge : housing on Chicago's waterfront." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68770.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.Includes bibliographical references.
This thesis proposes an approach to the design of urban housing which uses the public realm to reconcile the various desires of the city for continuous, accessible fabric, the developer for property value raising enhancements, and the inhabitant for security and a sense of local community. The project proposes thinking about urban housing development as a part of a larger neighborhood development rather than as an enclave. The design proposal demonstrates the application of this design method in answering to the needs of Chicago and the public realm, development pressures, and most importantly the comfort and quality of life of the inhabitant. The evolution of this more integrated urban housing design is traced and critiqued under various applications ranging from publicly-developed low-income to privately-developed upper income housing. The housing is evaluated according to its success first from a quality of life standpoint for its inhabitants, and second according to its integration and affects on the surrounding urban fabric. The basis of this range being that the argument revolves on establishing housing which can answer to the needs of the public realm and satisfy the basic needs of an inhabitant, in all income levels. This analysis of models and applications leads to a method, or rather standards in the success rate and feasibility of a housing development. The public realm is the next item critiqued to establish similar models of success. The result is a list of standards which a development must respond to, to satisfy both the needs of the city, and of its inhabitants. The comprehensive approach becomes the next step in the evolution. An SO-acre plot of Chicago's waterfront, where current housing and commercial development is occurring, is the test site for the comprehensive approach. The same standards by which the other housing was critiqued will be applied both at a city-wide level and a housing level. A master-plan is provided for growth on the SO-acre site including the general scope of the housing needs and requirements. The housing is then fully developed and explored on both the urban and architectural level.
by Anthony Olindo Montalto.
M.Arch.
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Larson-Hughes, Robert. "Projective design studies toward a new waterfront hotel." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68258.
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Wong, Ching-long Jerome. "Opera centre & cultural park at Central-Wanchai waterfront." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25945725.
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Kautz, Ryan D. "Reclaiming the Annapolis waterfront towards an architecture of place /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/201.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Comella, Lawrence. "An urban waterfront room in Georgetown: an architecture school." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53394.
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Proportions
Dangerous liaisons
Ultimately this project was approached
As a kind of architectural choreography.
As in all choreography motion plays a
Major role. The motion of the participants
Through the spaces, and the placement of
The pieces in relation to each other. On a
Smaller scale a choreography of duality.
Mute, mute, light
Enclosed space, enclosed space, volume
Horizontal and vertical
This project being a vehicle for discovery
Various amounts of play and exploration
Are allowed within this choreography.
The amount of play allowed is both the strength and weakness of this project.
With something of this range and scope there are:
Direct hits,
Near hits,
Near misses,
Direct misses,
All within the whole.
Finally as with anything that is thoroughly
Done it is fuel for beginning and not an end
In and of itself.Master of Architecture
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Van, Praagh Alexander C. (Alexander Constantine). "Beyond boundaries : building public access to an urban waterfront." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79020.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (p. 93).
Waterfront cities have historically evolved through conditions generated by reciprocity between water and landscape. Just as water gives form to the natural landscape, it provokes form in the built environment. Today the relationship has become less apparent. The intention of this thesis is to explore the reintegration of a city with its waterfront through the building of public space and access. This thesis proposes a design as an investigation of the following: -- how spatial and visual access between inland and waterfront public places can enrich one's experience and understanding of a city -- how waterfront structures and built landscape can intensify the exchange between land and water -- how pier and warehouse vocabulary may be transformed and reinterpreted; and finally -- how programmatic balance of public and private, utilitarian and commercial developments may help to redefine and revitalize an urban waterfront.
by Alexander C. Van Praagh.
M.Arch.
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Hollister, Susan Elizabeth. "Intensifying urban thresholds : building continuity for New Bedfords's waterfront." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67137.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Some pages folded.
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This thesis explores issues of urban form through an understanding of vernacular traditions in a local context. The exploration consists of looking at the characteristics of a particular place in an attempt to understand how a past way of defining space might inform a future way of making. The underlying concern in this thesis is the issue of disinvestment in our cities and towns. City centers -- once thriving commercial, civic, and community precincts -- have become fragmented, stratified, and isolated places. As crime, suburbanization, and disinvestment impoverish the public realm of the city center, those that can afford to avoid the plurality of the street for an increasingly privatized existence. Our built environment is a direct reflection of these trends -- the more we turn inward for stimulation, the less emphasis we place on the exterior; the more concerned we are with bottom line costs, the less we spend on public amenities and infrastructure. By focusing on a city in which these problems are manifest one might explore ways that architecture can provide increased opportunities for interaction and communication between people. For the purposes of this exploration, the City of New Bedford was chosen; it is a place of longstanding building traditions that faces the disinvestment that plagues many American cities today, The methodology that has been developed is rooted in vernacular traditions, and it establishes a mechanism for strengthening and enriching the interface between public and private realms.
by Susan Elizabeth Hollister.
M.Arch.
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Hussein, Mohamed M. Fageir. "Urban regeneration and the transformation of the urban waterfront : a case study of Liverpool waterfront regeneration." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28746/.
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The transformation of urban waterfronts is one of the key urban design and planning stories of the late twentieth century. The decline of the waterfront in post-industrial cities meant the deterioration of both a physical and social nature of significant portions of urban fabric. Cities have reacted to this state of affairs with substantial regeneration programs, approaching the decline of waterfront as an opportunity rather than a problem. However, since the success of early regeneration programs in North America, changing urban waterfronts on a global scale has led to a manifestation of globalisation, becoming a synonym of uniformity and monotony of cities. The urban waterfront also has become a battleground for a number of intersecting forces and different interests and desires. This research aims to study the phenomenon of urban waterfront regeneration, specifically analysing how it has operated within the UK context since the late 20th century until the present. It focuses on investigating the process of transformation of the urban waterfront in the city of Liverpool. Liverpool has suffered from a serious urban decline following the degeneration of its seven miles of docks due to a number of internal and external factors. However, since the 1980s, the image of an abandoned waterfront has started to change with massive waterfront regeneration schemes that aim to improve the physical, environmental, social and economic conditions of the area. This research argues that by understanding the process and the context of this regeneration, several lessons can be learned and models of good practice can be identified. The research is based on a series of lengthy interviews with key stakeholders closely linked with the development in the city, a review of documents related to the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront, including urban design policies and guidance, a substantial review of relevant news articles that were written throughout the periods of the recent transformation of the city, and numerous site visits to reflect upon the development carried out recently. The research also identifies and discusses a number of key urban issues such as image and identity, cultural built heritage, place marketing and branding, urban governance. The research identifies three distinctive eras of waterfront regeneration and several key regeneration schemes. Each of these eras reflects the many factors that shaped the urban landscape. The research argues that there are no specific models that can create successful waterfront regeneration, yet, what is important is ensuring the complexity and the inclusiveness of the process of the regeneration. An inclusive and a complex process will result in attaining urban competitiveness besides securing distinctive, genuine and imaginative urban identity. The research also highlighted the central role of urban design as a mediator between the numerous processes and different forces that shape the urban landscape.
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Westin, Forrest A. (Forrest Alexander) 1977. "On the waterfront : a 25 year study of the relative risk & return of Florida single-family waterfront and inland homes (1977-2002)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29779.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-119).
This study applies the classic capital markets risk/return relationship-the riskier the investment, the greater the expected return-to the single-family home market. Treating coastal waterfront property as a unique asset class, its investment performance is measured and compared with that of inland property to determine the potential existence of a "mispricing" in the home market. Using single-family home transaction data from four coastal Florida counties, this thesis uses a repeat-sales regression technique to estimate annual home price changes and to construct home price indices for the period 1977-2002. The resulting price indices show a higher average annual appreciation rate for waterfront homes relative to inland homes; the highest waterfront price appreciation occurred over the period 1997-2002. The results also indicate that waterfront homes in two of the four study counties experienced higher average price appreciation at lower levels of risk than the inland homes. This finding indicates a potential "mispricing" of waterfront homes.
by Forrest A. Westin.
S.M.
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Lam, Yi-man Daphne. "Tsuen Wan waterfront revitalisation linking people, district and sea /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42664536.
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歐陽倩雯 and Sin-man Angie Au-Yeung. "Sai Kung town waterfront redevelopment." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3198079X.
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王穎儀 and Wing-yee Wong. "Redevelopment of waterfront landscape in Stanley, Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980600.
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Englund, John Henry. "Toward an architecture of memory : a waterfront museum in East Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73285.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80).
It is the claim of this thesis that our society is undergoing a change as profound as the mechanical revolution which gave rise to modernism. An increasingly complex world demands an equally complex architecture. Not spacial complexity, necessarily, but rather semantic complexity is sought. This issue is explored through the design of a museum of Boston harbor on an East Boston waterfront site. The history of the site, its East Boston neighborhood, and the Boston waterfront are used as sources for the design. References are combined through the devices of bricolage, layering, and juxtaposition.
John Henry Englund.
M.Arch.
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Coo, Melanie B. (Melanie Beth) 1970. "Defining place : giving form to crossings in a small town waterfront community." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65245.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).
How do you define a place? This thesis has been an exploration in giving form to the many forces which come together and give a place a particular character. It is about providing an alternative to the usual public place markers of civic monuments such as town halls and churches, and instead allowing the architectural form to grow out of the existing forces These forces are in constant interaction with each other and the world around them: public and private, water and land, new and old , interior and exterior, movement, light and use. I have set out to develop those zones shared by these things crossing over one another, focusing primarily on the building edges where public and private intersect.
by Melanie B. Coo.
M.Arch.
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Wong, Wing-kong. "Landscape linkage along the edge waterfront design at Shau Kei Wan typhoon shelter /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42664378.
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Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009.Includes special report study entitled: Treatments of the tidal edge for appreciation. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
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Bergelin, Anne Cora. "Spatial Semantics: Finding Landscape in New York City’s Comprehensive Waterfront Plans." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366591806.
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Mackay, Ian Patrick. "Waterfront Flyways: Two Land Creation Projects in Cleveland." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397735785.
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BANYAS, JEANNE M. "RECONNECTION: INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTS IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL CITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1085598080.
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Lam, Yi-man Daphne, and 林依汶. "Tsuen Wan waterfront revitalisation: linking people, district and sea." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42664536.
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Haga, Sarah. "Celebration of change : an exploration of meaning, form and material on the Chelsea waterfront." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74347.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.Includes bibliographical references (p. 125).
Change as a physical and psychological process is the connecting thread of the three themes explored in this thesis. First, the AA and AI-Anon programs are used as a framework for an exploration of spirituality or meaning. The programs are about finding a route to positive change in one's life through a sharing of common life experiences among group members. Second, concrete is used as a primary structural and textural material and as the point of departure for an exploration of all other materials. The integration of material and form throughout the design process was a basic premise. Finally, the strong character of the site, on the waterfront, demanded investigation. The everchanging influences on the site generated the built form. This document shows the project as a building process and a design process. The introduction clarifies the thematic origins and intentions. A pictorial essay describes the design process. Design production phases narrate the essay and act as a point of reference for a chronological journal.
by Sarah Haga.
M.Arch.
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Alamuddin, Hana S. (Hana Slieman). "Waterfront developments in the Middle East case study : the Golden Horn Project, Istanbul, Turkey." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71062.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-115).
This thesis examines waterfront developments in the Middle East . It concentrates on the Golden Horn project in Istanbul as it raises a number of issues that are central to any such development in that region. In order for us to appreciate the problem, the thesis starts with an examination of the history of the city of Istanbul. This is followed by an investigation of the role of the Golden Hom in its life throughout history. The main issue raised in waterfront developments in a Middle Eastern context is discontinuity between the city and the new development through the introduction of new users, functions, scale and sensibilities alien to what exists now. Istanbul, being part of an international heritage, its preservation and continuity to the water's edge becomes a moral obligation as well as a practical need to protect rest of its fabric from the repercussions of overloading. A performance specification is put forward to integrate the development back into the life of the city. Formally, urban waterfronts in the context of the Middle East are problematic as no precedent exists for dealing with the water's edge. Hence an investigation of the cultural attitude to nature and the form of the city is put forward, from which principles and orders are extrapolated to aid the designers in their approach to the problem.
by Hana S. Alamuddin.
M.S.
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Reifeiss, Robert F. (Robert Frank). "On the edge : rethinking the life of the city : restructuring, readapting, reusing Lynn's waterfront." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69339.
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Srirojanapinyo, Apichart. "Open to the public! : a new network of communal recreation waterfront space in Bangkok." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49543.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-121).
Physically and historically, Bangkok has been shaped by its relationship to its waterfront. Flowing 370 kilometers through Thailand, the Chao Phraya River is more than the nation's lifeline. It was a principal waterway that largely determined the expansion of this former agricultural city. With the advent of industrialization, the focus shifted to the establishment and consolidation of man made infrastructures such as roads and highways, leaving the waterfronts as large areas of underused land, deteriorated ports, warehouses, and informal settlements. With recent developments turning their backs onto the waterfront, the diminishing public exposure and access to the Chao Phraya River means it is quickly losing its historic role as an valuable asset and resource for the capital. This thesis proposes the establishment of a green network along the Chao Phraya River by opening up and developing selected underused areas, and connecting them with the new systematic water transportation. Open to the Public! presents a series of open space networks that offer new public areas to the city by (i) improving the river accessibility to reconnect it with the city, (ii) opening up and creating a new network of public recreational waterfronts that also addresses the existing flooding problem, and (iii) activating the use and access of the hidden Bangkrachao peninsula, a 14.4-million-square-meter jungle located just over two kilometers from the Bangkok Central Business District. As the ports and industrial zone are gradually being moved to new locations, this thesis aims to explore the plausibility of reconnecting this large preservation area back to Bangkok.
by Apichart Srirojanapinyo.
S.M.
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Ebeltoft, Todd W. "Localized Tactics | Territorial Impact." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407407244.
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Smith, Kevin M. "Designing for the Waterfront - An Estuarine Research Reserve on Jones Point." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36687.
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Due to our love of the waterfront, almost half of the United States population now lives in coastal areas, including shores of estuaries. Unfortunately, this increasing concentration of people upsets the balance of ecosystems. My thesis project, Designing for the Waterfront - An Estuarine Research Reserve on Jones Point is about setting an example, setting a precedent for building on the waterfront. I have attempted to design an environmentally responsive and sensitive research center that will not only monitor and study the Potomac estuary, but will also serve as an example of how one should build on the estuary.Master of Architecture
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Wong, Ching-long Jerome, and 黃政朗. "Opera centre & cultural park at Central-Wanchai waterfront." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985506.
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Shi, Xuanxuan, and 石璇璇. "Connecting the lost landscape: waterfront redevelopment of southeast of Stanley Bay." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009788.
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Shang, Huijun. "Rediscover the waterfront through redevelopment a cultural and entertainment center in Huizhou, China /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1440081.
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Edge, Todd A. "Lower Manhattan and the East River: an investigation into the renewal of the Lower East Side waterfront." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3232.
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With the mid-20th Century construction of an elevated highway along Manhattan’s East River, the declining neighborhood of the Lower East Side was removed from its waterfront. As cities begin to re-examine their edges, I feel it is appropriate to address the issues of the Lower East Side community and its former riverfront. Utilizing the recent developments in Manhattan, London, and Chicago as a basis for determining how metropolitan areas are attempting to reconnect with their shores, a set of questions were developed, analyzed, and then applied to the Lower East Side. With the analysis of these questions providing the groundwork for the project, the main concern turns to the elevated highway that has cut through the community along the water’s edge. There are three possible solutions for the future of this ‘wall’ in order to reconnect the Lower East Side with the East River. The first two solutions examine the idea of demolishing the elevated FDR Drive in favor of subterranean or surface streets. The other solution examines the possibility of redesigning the existing elevated highway. In the end, the project focuses on an urban design and planning program that re-establishes the connections between the community and the waterfront.
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Woods, Timothy Joseph. "Architecture in context: the rehabilitation of the historic waterfront of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52049.
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This thesis illustrates a design process which is dependent upon the investigation of context as a means to establish an order for the integration of a multifaceted urban environment into a cohesive whole.Master of Architecture
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Lorg, John L. "The development of small town waterfronts." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/167.
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Wong, Wing-kong, and 黃泳港. "Landscape linkage along the edge: waterfront design at Shau Kei Wan typhoon shelter." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42664378.
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Tacey, Carlin Renee. "Renegotiating the Edge: Creating an Inspired Reality in the Potomac River Watershed." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86411.
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Water edge communities are portals to terra firma. Their role as negotiators between land and water is more important now than ever before due to increasing fluctuations in water height from storm surges and sea level rise. To understand the future of these edge conditions, my research looks to the past at a 1967 report entitled; The Potomac: A Report on Its Imperiled Future and a Guide for Its Orderly Development, authored by pioneers Stewart Udall, Ian McHarg and others. The report approached the ecology and culture of the Potomac River basin through the lens of the 1960s, a time of unprecedented growth. Emerging at the semi-centennial of the original report, my thesis is both an homage and critique, challenging its concepts of order and development, and redefining four of the original eleven principles in the report's concept of the ideal region. The thesis investigation also works within a more actionable scale of intervention, a tributary to the Potomac River. The project develops a transferable approach for other tributaries, exploring Quantico Creek and the town of Dumfries, Virginia, a historic seaport in Prince William County, as a case study for design intervention, and analyzes the historic and ecological conditions that led to the marginalization of the community in the wake of siltation and urban sprawl. The resulting proposal reconnects the community with the creek, and fulfills an intention of the original Potomac Report: to spark inspired realities along the river's 400-mile course.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Weaver, Alissa N. "Urban Surface: Improving Identity through Formal and Social Connections in Toledo, OH." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306499270.
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Ma, Kai Michael. "Revitalization of urban industrial waterfront area : the redevelopment of Taikoo Warehouses area of Guangzhou /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42927547.
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ibrahim, sameh mohamed. "A Transient Community for a Transient Lifestyle." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3685.
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The project suggests an alternative means for living in Qatar. It proposes the development of a transient, floating community a man-made, transitory archipelago of floating housing units located at the ‘soon to be abandoned’ docks a short distance from the Museum of Islamic Art and the Doha Corniche. The design, through a variety of bespoke dwelling options, can provide both more and less nomadic housing to accommodate a variety of dif- ferent lifestyles and social units. Clustered around three permanent islands (containing a cultural/activity center, three adaptable ‘work-unit’ towers, and a park/commercial area), the design provides a wide set of adaptive layout patterns within which the mobile units can be arrayed. Directly plugged into the city, the community functions as a floating appendix to downtown Doha: an adaptable and flexible city-supplement that can expand or contract ac- cording to need, whether to aid in the accommodation of guests for various large-scale sporting or other events, or merely to provide an alternative locale for long or short stay visitors to Doha alike.
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Ma, Kai Michael, and 馬愷. "Revitalization of urban industrial waterfront area: the redevelopment of Taikoo Warehouses area ofGuangzhou." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009843.
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Emond, Matthew W. "Endogenous Process & Designing Through Change." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/300.
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This project was an exercise in aligning my intuition, community experience, and design sensitivities under the pretext of an architectural expression. My desire was to work endogenously, or out of my home environment, on a project that had no clear programmatic or formal requirements or limitations. I began by assessing a prevalent issue in my home town (a connection between the river and the town center) both from the top down and the bottom up. Throughout, I sought to challenge my preconceived notions of what might be, and allow a design process to emerge out of the layers of information I had absorbed as a participant in this holistic landscape. Inflection and change became a driving force in this pared down design process, and through them came a working territory that framed the programmatic and formal specificities of the South River P.O.R.T.
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Ioannidis, Konstantinos. "Designing the Edge : An Inquiry into the Psychospatial Nature of Meaning in the Architecture of the Urban Waterfront." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Kritiska studier i arkitektur, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-39031.
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The initial goal of this effort is to develop a discussion on urban design process and thinking that acknowledges the needs of places with meaning in the design of the urban waterfront. The thesis addresses the fact that the problematic of the coastal formulation is intricate, comprising not only aspects related to the spatial organization and design of its domain but also shared properties originated by the presence and movement of the perceiving subject in the area. In this framework, the research attempts to provide an understanding of the main relationships that the subject cultivates inside the coastal space and to offer a broader spatial reading of its narrative function. On the hypothesis that this function is susceptible of interpretation, the thesis develops an interest in examining the effects of the psychospatial nature of meaning on the design and experience of the urban edge, for to interpret a narrative spatial construct is to specify its meaning. To explore the issue of waterfront places that speak of the subject, the research conceives the coastal space as a field of mediated parameters that pertain to three crucial operational premises: the symbolic function of the urban space near the water, the meaning behind the coastal form, and the engagement of the perceiving subject in the conscious or reflexive appropriation of the waterfront setting. These premises, traced as psychophysiological spaces, determine the intermediary, the integrative, and the expressive discourses for the development of places with meaning near the water. Through them, the thesis attempts a reading of the coastal domain based upon the material interpretation of the meanings and messages associated with the immediate experience of the onset of water‐born notions, concepts, and images. Writing about the dialectics between the psychospatial inquiry and the spatial experience of the edge, this thesis suggests that, contrary to the established preconception, the psychology of human‐edge relations submits the perceiving subject to the conception of the coastal form and shape.QC 20110907
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Ward, Kyle. "The Detroit East RiverWalk: extend-connect-provide." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8630.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
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Our water bodies have functioned as a critical transportation network, moving people, raw materials, products and goods across countries and continents. Starting as hubs of shipping, trade, and commerce, water bodies were the center of social and economic life of early cities. Technological advances in freight transport spelled the eventual demise of urban ports. This transformation has left vast swathes of vacant, urban waterfront property under-used, neglected, and disconnected from cities that once thrived along the water. This under-utilized land is now seen as a resource for revitalizing urban cores. Cities are looking to reclaim their once prosperous waterfronts (Fisher et al. 2004). Detroit’s riverfront has long been plagued by industry and pollution. For the past 25 years, Detroit has been striving to turn its dilapidated shoreline into a thriving public asset. Today, three and a half miles of the Detroit RiverWalk stretching from Joe Louis Arena east to Gabriel Richard Park have been completed and is open to the public (Brown 2007). Designs are currently being developed to extend the RiverWalk west to Ambassador Bridge, but no studies are planned for the east end toward Water Works Park and beyond(Brown 2007). The existing eastern terminus of Detroit’s RiverWalk does not allow access to the riverfront from neighborhoods that lie to the north and east. Residents have expressed growing interest in extending the RiverWalk and greenway connections to promote use (The Villages Community Development Corporation 2010). How can the Detroit RiverWalk be configured to extend eastward in order to connect neighborhoods and communities to the waterfront, provide amenities in waterfront parks, and create pedestrian greenway linkages? The Detroit riverfront will be accessible to surrounding neighborhoods with the east extension of the RiverWalk, redesign of waterfront parks, and greenway linkages which connect communities with the waterfront and amenities. Humans have a natural attraction to water; therefore “the public increasingly desires and expects access to the water’s edge” (Brown 2007). Pedestrian access is fundamental, particularly linking outlying areas to the water’s edge (Marshall 2001). The RiverWalk extension consists of research of waterfront theory, greenway practices, and the existing riverfront. Critical theory principles and contextual information will be extruded and organized into key components: Extend, Connect, and Provide. These components will outline the analysis, programming, and design phases in order to create a coherent master plan. Detroit can be a precedent for greenway and waterfront development in residential neighborhoods. The Detroit riverfront can be transformed into a public amenity for residents and visitors to benefit, enjoy, and appreciate the power of our fundamental resource: water.
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Li, Baozhang. "Design patterns for an urban waterfront--a case study : designing the sea-walk of West Vancouver." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29197.
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The paper consists of five steps. The first step is to study and explore theories of order, time image, and meaning of place. A hypothetical equation is proposed which defines a place as having three basic components: time, order and meaning. Special attention is paid to the time image of a place through the thesis. The second step is to organize the theories as a set of systematic design ideas. Twelve design categories are further introduced, which include Rhythm, Season, Celebration, Layer, Future, Sequence, Derelict, Night, Center, Boundary, and Sacred Places.
The third step is to generate a set of patterns for the waterfront design under twelve design topics. Pattern is a bridge between principle and design. The conversion of a design idea into a design pattern can be seen as a procedure to test the validity of design ideas. The fourth step is to apply the design patterns to a specific site on the West Vancouver Waterfront. In a sense, the application of the patterns is an experiment, aimed at testing the patterns, hence the whole thesis as a hypothesis. The final step is to review and evaluate the thesis and the project.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Oom, Gonçalo Maria Gonçalves Calaveiras Félix. "Estabelecer um percurso redesenho e requalificação da avenida marginal de São Tomé." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17532.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.A presente dissertação parte, através de um enquadramento histórico, do reconhecimento da preponderância dos edifícios religiosos no desenvolvimento das cidades, particularmente nas ilhas de São Tomé e Príncipe. Focando-se no contexto particular da cidade de São Tomé que se foi desenvolvendo ao longo da Baia Ana Chaves, analisa-se como a construção de edifícios religiosos e seus espaços públicos adjacentes, potenciou de forma determinante a evolução do traçado urbano da Capital. Como parte integrante desta análise, apresenta-se também a relação inerente destes edifícios, assim como toda a cidade, com o Mar, característica comum às várias cidades coloniais portuguesas. A linha mestra de crescimento urbano, que sempre funcionou como elemento unificador dos edifícios religiosos principais da cidade e símbolo preponderante da relação da cidade com o Mar, é a sua Avenida Marginal. Atualmente bastante degradada e muito aquém do seu potencial verdadeiro. Portanto em paralelo à análise referida apresenta-se um projeto de desenvolvimento urbano de toda a Avenida Marginal, ancorado na reabilitação e redesenho dos espaços públicos adjacentes aos seis edifícios religiosos que a pontuam. Desta forma, pretende-se através de espaços públicos qualificados e diferenciados nos seus usos, criar um maior equilíbrio na vivência da cidade, distribuindo-a ao longo de toda a Baia, em vez da centralizar nas zonas dos mercados, como está atualmente. De forma a completar esse percurso, restabelecendo parte das antigas romarias da cidade, pretende-se ainda apresentar um projeto arquitetónico que permita dotar a cidade de um sétimo edifício religioso, também ele como impulsionador do crescimento urbano na zona norte da Baia. O edifício proposto, tendo em conta a maioria religiosa são-tomense, será uma igreja católica, procurando ser um local de encontro social e espiritual, que vá de encontro a expectava dos fiéis. O edifício e o seu espaço envolvente terão como desafio, respeitando a tradição católica e cultura africana, conseguir de forma contemporânea enquadrar-se dentro da linha dos seis edifícios religiosos já referidos. Este deve funcionar como parte integrante do percurso da marginal e não como elemento de exceção, de forma a criar relações dinâmicas e fluídas em vez de um percurso de sentido único.
ABSTRACT: The present dissertation starts with a historical framework, recognizing the preponderance of religious buildings in the development of cities, particularly in the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. Focusing on the particular context of the city of São Tomé that has been developed along the Ana Chaves Bay, it is analyzed how the construction of religious buildings and their adjacent public spaces, potentiated in a decisive way the evolution of the urban layout of the Capital. As an integral part of this analysis, the inherent relation of these buildings, as well as the whole city, with the Sea, characteristic common to the several Portuguese colonial cities, is also presented. The main line of urban growth, which has always functioned as unifying element of the city's main religious buildings and a preponderant symbol of the city's relationship with the Sea, is its Marginal Avenue. Currently very degraded and far below its true potential. Therefore, in parallel to the analysis referred to above, there is an urban development project of the entire Avenida Marginal, anchored in the rehabilitation and redesign of the public spaces adjacent to the six religious buildings that punctuate it. In this way, it is intended through public spaces qualified and differentiated in their uses, to create a greater balance in the experience of the city, distributing it throughout bay, instead of centralizing in the zones of the markets, as it is currently. In order to complete this route, restoring part of the ancient pilgrimages of the city, it is also intended to present an architectural project that allows to endow the city with a seventh religious building, also it as a driver of urban growth in the northern part of the bay. The proposed building, taking into account the religious majority of Sao Tome, will be a Catholic church, seeking to be a place of social and spiritual encounter, which meets the expectations of the faithful. The building and its surrounding space will have as challenge, respecting the catholic tradition and African culture, to achieve in a contemporary way to fit within the line of the six religious buildings already mentioned. This should work as an integral part of the path of the marginal and not as an element of exception in order to create dynamic and fluid relations rather than a one-way path.2
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Santos, Carolina de Freitas Madeira dos. "A arquitetura como portal do mar." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/21834.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura com a especialização em ArquiteturaA perceção atual da cidade e das dinâmicas do seu espaço urbano, define-se por imagens, espaços e estímulos que atuam sobre as pessoas e se refletem na arquitetura dos lugares. O Seixal é um desses exemplos, onde o simbolismo de uma era industrial permanece um elemento marcante na paisagem e morfologia da cidade. A Arquitetura como Portal do Mar tem como objetivo desenvolver um projeto que provoque uma nova forma de olhar para a relação entre cidade, rio e paisagem. Para esta reflexão será analisado o passado da cidade para podermos compreender a sua história e os seus valores. Os conceitos teóricos abordados irão estar, de alguma forma incorporados, na proposta de um desenho urbano que abrange a frente ribeirinha da Ponta dos Corvos, unificando algumas das construções moageiras desde o moinho de maré do Galvão até ao moinho de maré da Torre e melhorando a união deste espaço com a zona do Miratejo. Deste modo, o projeto da Ponta dos Corvos pretende tirar partido das condições naturais únicas que oferece e reutilizar o património industrial marginalizado e ainda evidenciar a qualidade ecológica da zona. A proposta arquitetónica pretende obter um caracter educativo e cultural tal como a valorização do conhecimento, da cultura e do desporto, do território existente, natural e patrimonial, associando-se à identidade local, promovendo assim memória da cidade.
ABSTRACT: The perception of the city these days is defined by images and spaces that somehow create dynamics, impulses between people and architecture. Seixal is one example of that, where the symbolism of an industrial era remains a striking element in the landscape and morphology of the city. Architecture as a Sea Portal aims to develop a project that provokes a new way of looking at the relationship between city, river and landscape. For this reflection we will analyze the city's past in order to understand its history and values. The theoretical concepts approached will be somehow incorporated in the proposal of an urban design that covers the riverfront of Ponta dos Corvos, unifying some of the mill constructions from the Galvão tide mill to the Torre tide mill and improving the union of this space with the Miratejo area. In this way, the Ponta dos Corvos project intends to take advantage of the unique natural conditions it offers and reuse the marginalised industrial heritage and also highlight the ecological quality of the area. The architectural proposal intends to obtain an educational and cultural character, such as the valorization of knowledge, culture and sport, of the existing territory, natural and patrimonial, associating itself with the local identity, promoting the memory of the city.
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