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OPEN SHORE A lively and inclusive downtown with a new iconic waterscape experience West Palm Beach, Florida Students: Jose Isidro Pastor Tormo + Marina Patón Ballester

This project imagines the future West Palm Beach as a dynamic and inclusive downtown where activities and spaces are closely interrelated, providing access to a new urban waterscape, enhancing the city’s connection to the lagoon and bringing infinite possibilities of urban culture, economic development and leisure. ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏

#multilayered #public life #renaturalization #resilience #fostered connection #walkability

West Palm Beach is a city from the state of Florida whose tropical temperatures and line coast call out people from all over the world to go on holiday and experience a southeastern experience in the USA. WPB has a total population of 150000 inhabitants that live from the touristic attendance and whose climate change effects are destroying the existing waterfront of the city. One of the most important problems of the city is the centralized economic system located at the city center and their progressive desertion of the rest of the neighbourhoods as the downtown.

The project takes into consideration the needs of youth and elders alike in order to make a positive impact on the city as a whole and create a healthier living environment for all residents and visitors. The ecological and resilient design proposed here allows people to


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