EWWUD 2016 Migrations Waterfront Cascais by Pedro Garcia

Waterfront - Cascais migrations

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Publication date

Migrations Waterfront - Cascais

2017

Organizers

Permalink Coordinator

Pedro Ressano Garcia Organizing committee

Bernardo Vaz Pinto Filipa Antunes Filipe Quaresma Isabel Barbas Maria João Matos Margarida Valla Nuno Griff Tiago Queiroz Rui Nogueira Simões Vasco Santos Pinheiro

internationaleventsdau.ulusofona.pt Keywords

Waterfront Regeneration, Migrations, Urban Design, Cascais Impressão e Acabamento

SOARTES - Artes Gráficas, LDA. Depósito Legal

427154/17 ISBN

978-989-757-056-8 This publication contains the results of the European Workshop on Waterfront Urban Design – EWWUD 2016

Students committee

Luisa Miala Elder Cardoso Iris Pedro MIguel Bernardo João Pedro Serafim João Pedro Maia

Sponsors

Editorial coordination

Pedro Ressano Garcia Editorial Assistants

Silvana Moreira´ Graphic Design

Itemzero Composition and Graphic Arrangement

Silvana Moreira Rui Neto Marcelo Rafael António Francisco Cover Design

Íris Pedro

Partners

Acknowledgments

The workshop has much to thank. At the time of publishing the results of International Week at ULHT we should start by saying that this book is only possible because of the enthusiasm of all who have supported the event in so many different ways. It all begun with the Municipality of Cascais that provided accommodation and the work facilities provided by Lisbon Architecture Triennale. The extraordinary team of international professors coming to Lisbon that worked passionately with each group. And at last, or first of all, the Universidade Lusófona that turned this project real. The administrator of U. Lusófona, Manuel José Damásio carefully handled the project and solved a number of difficulties that the project, necessarily demands. The workshop requires the energy of a crowd. It is an extraordinary group of people, nearly seventy that work hard. They travel miles to be in Lisbon, have little sleep and produce outstanding material that we publish in this book. The work published here has been coordinated by guest tutors, Alkmini Paka, Aktan Acar, Andreas Flora, Cornelia Radeker, Geral Haselwanter, Irene Curulli, Johannes Kalvelage, Kasia Urbanowicz, Kostas Sakadamis, Nikos Kalogirou, Peter Gabrijeclcic, Renée Tribble and Spela Hudnik. Together with local faculty who supervised the studios, Bernardo Vaz Pinto, Filipa Antunes, Filipe Quaresma, Isabel Barbas, Maria João Matos, Margarida Valla, Nuno Griff, Tiago Queiroz, Rui Nogueira Simões, Vasco Santos Pinheiro and myself, who contaminated the group with their enthusiasm and challenged their thoughts. Without their preparatory work the

workshop would not have been possible. The students who participated made the workshop possible and the cooperation between tutors and their ideas are expressed through design and text in this book. The group students of the organization made the event possible, without them it would not have happened, they brought a refreshing and energetic approach thanks to Luisa Miala, Elder Cardoso, Iris Pedro, MIguel Bernardo, João Pedro Serafim and João Pedro Maia.

Pedro Ressano Garcia Coordinator of European Workshop on Waterfront Urban Design 2016

Index

Introduction

Waterfront & Migrations The impact of climate change

Paper

Cascais Revisited: rethink, revitalize, repair

Team Project

Waterfronts Group #5

Waterfronts Cascais â&#x20AC;&#x201C; New Layers

Lx Transfolds

Team Project Team Project

Team Project

Waterfronts The Wall

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47 Migrations Architecture and Territories in Times of Change

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Behind is the death! Is Heaven ahead?

Waterfronts The Cascais Island

Lx Transfolds: Intimacy from Structure and Order

Wall-Come. Transposable Walls Expression of Concepts through Constructive Details

Metropolitan Weavers

Conclusion

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Conclusion

Introduction

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Prof. Pedro Ressano Garcia From

Universidade Lusรณfona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Portugal

Waterfront & Migrations The impact of climate change

Migrations brought to the centre of the discussion the consequences that global warming is creating to communities living under precarious conditions. The topic of our previous publication, Climate Change, generated a common understanding that many migratory movements emerge as a direct consequence of extreme swings in the climate, causing draught, hurricanes, sea level rise etc. One of the consequences of climate change is the stress put on vulnerable communities, promoting the erosion of their social organizations and influencing the collapse of political systems. The tendency for those living under precariousness to migrate is increasing every year. Climate change has consequences in the built environment and impose transformation worth discussing. One of the aims

of the workshop was to share knowledge on the topic and guide each participant to be aware of the influence in the communities. Architecture and Urban Design hold a share of the responsibility for improving the cities. Change is necessary, to recreate and repair the present condition, to integrate the communities and blur the negative impacts for those in need to migrate. The fifth edition of the European Workshop on Waterfront Urban Design (EWWUD) is dedicated to humans who, throughout the centuries, have migrated in search for better conditions. The migrant is either escaping from wars or genocides, plagues or natural catastrophes. Migrating movements acknowledge the precariousness of humans, the difficulty to adapt to extreme conditions generated by natural of man made disasters. From the architecture and urban design perspective new

questions are raised to respond to change, to adapt and to host. The necessary responses bring new opportunities that are to be designed but before diving into design proposals the group discussed the present condition of a humanitarian condition using the territory of Cascais as a laboratory. Eleven schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning came to Portugal to work together in March 2016. From Northern and Southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the schools brought students from all around the world, covering a wide scope of social groups, religions and political systems. The initiative brought fifty participants, graduate students, professors and professionals, to exchange their own views regarding the present challenges of the consequences of Migrations and searching for best possible solutions on the waterfront territories.

Waterfront & Climate Change

During the workshop, each group had the opportunity to exchange ideas on the topic and develop a critical analyses based on different parameters. The analysis opens the discussion to a wide range of participants that intend to develop strategies and formulate hypothesis based on the preservation of the contemporary challenges: environmental quality, survivals strategies to face global warming, migrants and refugees.

Ideas that are larger than life are obscured by the devastation “

The identification of the parameters offered the possibility to list and discuss them separately. Design proposals developed by each group elevated the solutions presented to a higher level, this was the main task of the workshop. The adaptation to the present and future challenges is explored in the design and expresses throughout the presentation of the extraordinary opportunities carried out. Waterfront brings together a number of different topics since it relates two different worlds, land and water, solid and fluid In the water, at the surface of the water there are naval activities, maritime transportation and the inacceptable transportation of refugees. Below the surface there is the protection of fragile ecologies, the necessity to reduce carbon emission and protect ecosystems. In land, the opportunities for human activities, the economy and the growing importance of tourism, merge constrains existing on Waterfront Urban Design. The opportunities and threats discussed at the beginning of the workshop by Aktan Acar set the premises of the topic. In his key note speech: Behind is the death! Is Heaven ahead? Acar from Ankara presented a provocative question regarding the implications of migrants and the goals of designers to deal with the present struggles. He stated that “Le Corbusier was indicating a creative act motivated by ideas larger than life and architecture itself. It is an architecture of which ultimate objective is not the building, but the realization of the ideas through spatial construction. Today, the enormity of the wars, crises, displacements, and the effects are creating a disintegration, a dissociative distance among the most humanly aspect of our kind.

Imaginative solutions that are larger than life are possible to develop in the academic environment where participants have the opportunity to share their local expertise and contribute for the heroic design. The aim is to think the process of transformation from a perspective that is useful in opening new perceptions. In the workshop, professors and students raise new questions to address the situation from different angles and search for the best design. Since there a variety of topics related to waterfront urban design, each group holds multidisciplinary participants. The aim of sharing best practices requires an interdisciplinary approach from the fields of architecture, urban planning, geography and urban design and landscape architecture. A holistic vision of the present problem is aimed in the proposal produced in the group conducted by Nikos Kalogirou and Alkmini Paka. In their design the quality stands on the ability to promote a fruitful dialogue between students and faculty and bring the knowledge of local situation to find imaginative solutions. In their paper Cascais Revisited: rethink, revitalize, repair, they point out the necessity of “Understanding the inherent attributes of the city's townscape and their potential was addressed in order to formulate design concepts that could enhance coherence, diversity and multiplicity of experiences in environmentally friendly, open public spaces along the waterfront. “ The necessity to introduce New Layers along Cascais Waterfront to create inclusive spaces that prevent the tendency for segregation. In her paper, Migrations, Architecture and Territories in Times of Change, Cornelia Redeker highlights the urgent need to promote the design of facilities described as “new hybrid typologies that are embedded in the specific urban contexts while providing a program and a specific architectural layout that aims to accommodate and foster the exchange between those that are in this scenario arriving newly to Lisbon, visitors, and inhabitants.“ The improve-

Introduction

Change is necessary, to recreate and repair the present condition, to integrate the communities and blur the negative impacts for those in need to migrate. ment of the waterfront areas depend on creative solutions that contribute for most desirable sustainable development. According to Redeker currently teaching in Cairo, the local situation holds “an urban fabric defined by vacancies vis-àvis the Jungle, an ad-hoc settlement dominated by, but certainly not only, young African and Arab men so desperately looking to find a better future on the other side of the channel where they are also not wanted. “ The proposals merge historic background, geographic context, economic competitiveness, the environment requests and local people’s necessities. All intend to be culturally rooted and are guided by a humanistic approach, where human life is treasured and its various expressions regardless the race or belief as all humans, migrants or local aim to live in a better way. The line between land and water is continuously being reshaped, the territory adapts to natural and man made activities. The group conducted by Peter Gabrijeclcic and Spela Hudnik privileged the fragile wall that needs reinforcements and introduced cracks to host, to adapt, to respond to the present challenges and to reshape the waterfront territory. The subject requires a wide understanding of various

Introduction

Waterfront & Climate Change

fields that affect and influence the process of transformation, such as the new docks placed on open sea, placed offshore the existing the Marina. The use of new technologies, the combination of research and intuitive thinking develop new design that makes use of interdisciplinary information.

understand the particularities of local necessities and the complexity of natural systems. The interdisciplinary approach values design proposals that integrate economic activity, protection of nature and the needs of the community.

needed transformation of the waterfront, — to understand that waterfronts are potential sites of continuity for urban morphology. 

The diversity of scale adopted in each proposal shown in the book cover large fields; from strategic urban planning, revealing the impact on wide areas of the territory, to the detailed plan of urban design. From the architecture of building design to the constructive details of temporary small scale intervention in the city. Kostas Sakantamis and Katarzyna Urbanowicz further explain the potencials and opportunities in Intimacy from Structure and Order to discuss the importance small scale interventions. They explore a similar path as Rui Simões in his paper dedicated to the Expression of Concepts through Constructive Details. The evaluation of the shopping spaces typologies in waterfront neighbourhood of Santos lead to the development of a series of proposals that emerge from crossing knowledge on Shopping Typologies, The Art District and Migration Typologies. Johannes Kalvelage, Andreas Flora and Gerald Haselwanter merged their groups to work together. In close collaboration with the local faculty they develop new programs; the Nest, National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Factory, the Strip, the Harbour and Main Street. The aim of all the proposals become, to weave the metropolis and to enhance the urban texture. The strategy to invite external experts has been of great interest. They shared their knowledge and challenged locals with a new vision. One that inevitably sets a new perspective on the subject by establishing cross-references with waterfront design, produced elsewhere. Each group organized, selected and edited the information required to identify problems and design solutions. Irene Curulli, Renée Trible focus on the waterfront to design a new island and a floating bridge along the naval club. The canal around the citadel is illustrated in the sections that explain how the wall becomes inhabited. The solution covers a wide range of disciplines to

The methodology suggested to most of the participants is to engage municipality representatives and high profile professionals, authors of master plans and projects of architecture of significant relevance for the region. They are involved in the workshop to share their perception of the theme and define locations. The research is made before the workshop begins, a body of knowledge is edited and offered to the participants. The use of an interdisciplinary approach is free from political pressures, therefore useful to address the emergent questions regarding the improvement of the urban environment, adaptation to climate change and inclusion of the growing number of migrants. Each group working at the workshop was multinational, highly educated and well informed. Today data flows freely, it is not possible to limit decisions when dealing with design studios formulating solutions of urban design and architecture for the region of Cascais. Few guidelines can be established when aiming for waterfront resilience facing climate change. Participants agreed on three major orientations: social, environment and economic. In short, the IP main objectives were: — to generate a methodology to contribute for the resilience of waterfront; — to invite local authorities to come and exchange management visions that succeed to re-establish its relation with the water, improving environmental conditions while supporting the economic activity; — to discuss and produce projects that improve the quality of life at the city and enhances the capacity to face climate change. — to discuss the influence of geographic and historical factors on the present situation produce cartographic records of the

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Alkmini Paka Nikos Kalogirou From

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering â&#x20AC;&#x201C; School of Architecture, Greece

Cascais Revisited: rethink, revitalize, repair

1. The site This year' s workshop site for potential interventions, was the waterfront area from Estoril to the Cascais Marina, while the actual redesign of the marina itself was also at stake. The main theme should be â&#x20AC;&#x153;migrationâ&#x20AC;? in, certainly, times of change. What could possibly be the conceptual connection of this theme to an area, remote from the present flows of immigrants and with a long tradition in high class tourism? The image of the distant past of a fisherman's village has been overwhelmingly replaced by a site of high and elaborate ecclectisism from the 19th century onwards, where tourists are attracted by wonderful beaches, parks, museums, the famous Estoril Casino and tales of the royal houses of Europe residing there, in order to avoid war or, spending the rest of their lifes after the end of their reign. The close distance of Cascais to the city of Lisbon

and its easy and frequent connection to the capital, by train, adds numbers of daily commuting tourists throughout the year. The municipality of Cascais has worked out projects promoting the preservation of natural reserved areas, accentuating and improving the ecology of the city' s hinterland, with social and environmental sustainability principles in mind. The historic city fabric is well preserved with site heritage serving as a catalyst for promoting the city's sense of identity and providing tourists with multiple experiences regarding culture, gastronomy and activities related to the sea. Certainly the urban fabric of the city differs considerably in the hinterland of the area, where the middle and low class quarters of the people, working for the tourist sector, reside away from the impressive waterfront districts. Many of them being immigrants themselves, migrating from diferent parts of the country or abroad, to find jobs. Still

linking the theme to the workshop's design task was difficult to handle for the students, but challenging. 2. Analysis During the analysis, visits to the site through the long waterfront promenade, showed gaps and discontinuites along the water's edge, while views and the natural setting of alternating small beaches and rocky cliffs, created a unique itinerary. The urban fabric was cut off from this itinerary, by the train rails and high speed routes along the coast and passages arriving there from the city, led to points where orientation signs and facilities for pedestrians were scarce, apart from restaurants and caffes, part of them closed. Arriving at the beach in front of the historic center and the Town Hall, the remaining fishing boats and the relevant facilities for the fishermen created an untidy and

Cascais Revisited: rethink, revitalize, repair

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discussion for incorporating the idea of migration was difficult to interweave in their design proposals. Their future vision of the area promoted a sustainable approach for the waterfront promenade with minimum, reversible interventions all along the coastline, focusing on providing orientation and facilities for pedestrians and bike riders, while underlying its continuity. Fishing, considered as a traditional sector of the local economy and quite important for tourism as well, should be provided with necessary infrastructure that could be combined with leisure facilities. The Marina redesign opted for improving access to its site, providing more planting areas with permeable paving in the open public spaces and new facilities, replacing the existing ones that should be entirely removed. The unobstructed view of the citadel and the ocean should be a major component of the developed concept. The issue of migration, finally, would also be addressed, by proposing a relevant information center, in relation to the existing museums network, in close proximity to the Marina.

Permeability of the urban fabric

congested area next to the yachting club. Finally, the Marina, at the end of this long promenade, appeared to be completely cut out from the adjacent urban fabric, its infrastructure and facilities, underused and presenting low quality of design, in terms of both the buildings and the surrounding open public spaces. The site though, was quite privileged, located under the Citadel, next to the existing museums' area, with a potential ample view of the ocean and the historic buildings to the west, while a beautiful view of the beach and the historic fabric of

the city center could be seen from its eastern edge. Students produced diagramms mapping the social permeability of the urban fabric, functions around the study area, circulation, network of cultural spaces and infrastructure related to fishing. 3. Strategy The strategy developped by the students for the entire study area was quite fragmented. They worked in small groups developing concepts for local interventions, while the

4. Proposals 4.1. The waterfront promenade The proposal for the waterfront promenade consisted of a system for street furniture, placed mostly, next to the passages linking the urban fabric to the coastline and spots where lack of orientation was detected during the analysis. This was a series of cubical elements, with a standard grid, that could be combined accordingly, having each one of them a certain function. A line paved with three different types of triangular tiles, running along the promenade should link these nodes guiding pedestrians from one spot to another. The system of these â&#x20AC;&#x153;multifunctional urban nodesâ&#x20AC;? could provide seating areas, wifi, greenery, parking space for bikes, garbage bins, drinking water and info points screens. Students tried in one to one scale, the size and colours of the tiles, while they also made models of diferent combinations of these elements. This system of urban nodes was supposed to mark and enhance the continuity of the long promenade from Estoril to the Marina.

Cascais Revisited: rethink, revitalize, repair

Multifunctional Urban Nodes

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4.2. The fishing piers New facilities for the fishermen were proposed, replacing the existing ones. The congested site with storage area and small cabins next to the yachting club, would be replaced by a wooden pier extending out of the beach in front of the Town Hall. On this pier, a series of small temporary wooden pavillions were designed to serve as an open fishmarket and small take away fish restaurants for tourists and locals. The existing pier to the west end of the beach, should be cleared from all existing functions and the new proposed terminal for boats arriving from Lisbon could be located there and used also by the fishermen's boats.

Their future vision of the area promoted a sustainable approach for the waterfront promenade with minimum, reversible interventions all along the coastline, focusing on providing orientation and facilities for pedestrians and bike riders, while underlying its continuity.

4.3. The Marina The analysis had depicted the problematic accesibility of the Marina from the city' urban fabric. Presently the site has two entrance points, one at its eastern edge where the waterfront promenade ends and one to the west, next to the green areas neighboring the museums. The east entrance is through a small staircase due to the difference in level between the end point of the promenade and that of the Marina, while the western one is next to the new municipal parking space that is mostly unused. Despite its location the area has a partial view of the open sea. The dock encircling the piers where the boats anchor, is lined with a wall -necessary to protect the site from big waveswhich is obstructing the view of the ocean from all the public open spaces of the Marina, while the view of the citadel, which is forming its northern boundary, is also obstructed by a two storey building comprising shops and restaurants. Finally, the main building, as mentioned above, presents a mediocre quality of design resulting in an urban landscape which is quite unappealing and is currently underused. Students proposed the reorganization of the two entrances. Platforms descending evenly into the Marina were designed to the east and a new public swimming pool was proposed to be located there, having a beautiful view of the city and the ocean. The two

storey building was removed and a green area was designed all along the citadel wall arriving to the western entrance of the site. Next to the entrance a pavillion was proposed as an information center for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Migrationâ&#x20AC;? that could be part of the adjacent museums network. Finally, the main building with the Marina facilities was also redesigned, having a sloping roof for encouraging visitors to climb up, in order to have an unobstructed view of the ocean from its terrace.

Cascais Revisited: rethink, revitalize, repair

Students' approach in elaborating their proposals for the entire study area, opted for a pedestrian friendly public realm along the coastline, complementing the historic and natural heritage of the site. Understanding the inherent attributes of the city's townscape and their potential was addressed in order to formulate design concepts that could enhance coherence, diversity and multiplicity of experiences in environmentally friendly, open public spaces along the waterfront. is mostly unused. Despite its location the area has a partial view of the open sea. The dock encircling the piers where the boats anchor, is lined with a wall -necessary to protect

the site from big waveswhich is obstructing the view of the ocean from all the public open spaces of the Marina, while the view of the citadel, which is forming its northern boundary, is also obstructed by a two storey building comprising shops and restaurants. Finally, the main building, as mentioned above, presents a mediocre quality of design resulting in an urban landscape which is quite unappealing and is currently underused. Students proposed the reorganization of the two entrances. Platforms descending evenly into the Marina were designed to the east and a new public swimming pool was proposed to be located there, having a beautiful view of the

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city and the ocean. The two storey building was removed and a green area was designed all along the citadel wall arriving to the western entrance of the site. Next to the entrance a pavillion was proposed as an information center for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Migrationâ&#x20AC;? that could be part of the adjacent museums network. Finally, the main building with the Marina facilities was also redesigned, having a sloping roof for encouraging visitors to climb up, in order to have an unobstructed view of the ocean from its terrace.ď Ž

Team Project

Teachers

Alkmini Paka Nikolaos Kalogirou Nuno Griff Filipe Quaresma

Students

Sven Westermann Mehmet Burak Konkan Andrea JurinÄ?iÄ? Dina Shehab Sophia Hofer Cecilia Ambrois Nadine Heweldy Patricia Alberto Miguel Bernardo

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Waterfront Group #5

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Circulation around and on the waterfront

Waterfront Group #5

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Analysis: Marina

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Team Project

Teachers

Peter Gabrijeclcic Spela Hudnik Isabel Barbas

Students

Kirollos Aamy Nabih Christoph Bierwirth Luis Cenci Duygu Gokoglu Cansu Cetin Katerina Myserli Janna Kampers Yanessa Guerra

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B | MARINA situation and concept

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Cornelia Redeker From

German University in Cairo - GUC, Egypt

Migrations Architecture and Territories in Times of Change

The current influx of refugees and migrants from countries suffering from humanitarian crises into Europe is challenging the architectural discipline to develop strategies. Ad hoc planning, as well as new typologies to enable a multicultural society to evolve demand for multi-scalar concepts that not only address the existential need for food and shelter, but that beyond that provide shared domains which offer spaces for interaction, coexistence and support in order to create livelihoods for those arriving in a new world. The students from the German University in Cairo participating in the European Waterfront Workshop on Urban Design returned to Cairo to continue their work on the topic of migrations in the context of the European refugee crisis as their bachelor projects after a week of intense exchange and field work with

students from the participating European schools and Lusófona University as the host institution. Their further developed interventions developed for Cascais and Lisbon aim to test new hybrid typologies to not only host, but to create potentials around this growing young, international community that are mutually beneficial to today’s citizens by creating overlaps and thus joint public spaces. As Egyptians, largely sharing the same cultural practice with the neighboring home countries of today’s arriving refugees, their empathy with those currently streaming into Europe differs significantly from the European perspective. Beyond a shared cultural practice and although in a “pull” and not a “push” situation compared to those moving from the adverse impacts of war, poverty and climate change the perspective is clearly one from South to North. All of the participating Egyptian students have personally experienced

the difficulty of attaining a visa to “Fortress Europe” even to participate in this short-term educational event. As we are currently facing the evacuation of the Jungle in Calais, the refugee camp on the French coast whose estimated population is ironically at least the same number (Blodau et al, 2016) as refugees that Portugal has offered to host, we see a counter model to the evolving brief. A shrinking French small town suffering from the consequences of industrial decline with an ageing population and an urban fabric defined by vacancies vis-à-vis the Jungle, an ad-hoc settlement dominated by, but certainly not only, young African and Arab men so desperately looking to find a better future on the other side of the channel where they are also not wanted. With all given difficulties, the potential demographic and economic synergies these two

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neighboring communities seem to offer may build more resilient futures than the currently strictly defensive mechanisms at high cost triggering more humanitarian tragedy and increasing xenophobia fed by the media.

surplus (Soares, 2014). The former mayor, now prime minister, moved his office to Intendente, one of the most problematic neighborhoods of Lisbon, to create a new dynamic in this part of the city. At the same time, both Lisbon and Cascais are major tourist destinations.

urban contexts while providing a program and a specific architectural layout that aims to accommodate and foster the exchange between those that are in this scenario arriving newly to Lisbon, visitors, and inhabitants. Both the marina in Cascais and the Lisbon waterfront are prime central locations. While integrating existing building structures, the Migrations University/Ferry stop as a model for Cascais and the Waterfront Hotel/Refugee Housing/Urban Park in Lisbon aim to bring

The already international big European urban hubs may be frontrunners in the challenge to produce new more resilient urban models for an increasingly diverse population. In this context, the student project proposals aim to advocate models that enable togetherness with a sensitivity to the cultural needs for the current inhabitants and of those newly arriving. But also smaller, shrinking cities and villages of Europe so desperately in need of new and especially young members, but as of yet rarely on the map, will inevitably have to host new inhabitants often with very different backgrounds from current demographics. Portugal has offered to host over 4700 refugees who have, as of yet, chosen other countries as their destination, one reason being the lack of opportunities to begin a new life (Donn, 2015). With its numerous colonies spread across the globe, Portugal has been coined the “First Global Empire” and the people from its former colonies give legacy to what makes Portugal international today. Beyond the dark history as a hub for slave trade from the African continent also to the new world, Lisbon as a global city traces back to the 12th century with an active international market life in Rua Nuova behind Praca do Commercio (Geschwend, 2015) grounded on trade relations that were ideally promoting business at eye level (Crowley, 2015). Cascais looks back on a long history of migration, still capitalizing on the aura that evolved as a prime destination for wealthy intellectuals, diplomats, spies and many others that escaped Central Europe during World War 2. Today Lisbon is the seat of the European Agency for Maritime Safety only minutes from the Lisbon waterfront site. The former UN High Commissioner of Refugees, António Guterres, currently running as a candidate for UN General Secretary, lives in Lisbon. The Agha Khan Foundation recently considered Cascais as seat for a new academy in combination with a new housing development that was declined as already today the city faces a

Within this potentially fruitful context, the design projects show case new hybrid typologies that are embedded in the specific

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The student project proposals aim to advocate models that enable togetherness with a sensitivity to the cultural needs for the current inhabitants and of those newly arriving.

proposals to the fore that produce a level of concentration and hybridization that activate the buildings, its individual uses and the surrounding urban fabric where visual encounters in the public domain are a given and potentially a starting point for more. 

References Blodau, P., Fanselow, S. Kurancid, E. (2016). Dismantling the ‘Jungle’, brick by brick. Le Monde diplomatique Oct 11, 2016. Retrieved on Oct 18, 2016 from http://mondediplo.com/outsidein/dismantling-the-junglebrick-by-brick Crowley, R. (2015). The First Global Empire. In: Volume 65 Issue 10 October 2015

Donn, N. (2015). Refugees don’t want to come to Portugal. Portugal Press. Retrieved on March 1, 2016 from: http://portugalresident.com/ refugees-don’t-want-to come-to-portugal Gschwend, A. J. (2015). The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon. Paul Holberton Publishing Soares, M.(2014). Projecto urbanístico que inclui academia Aga Khan em Cascais gera. Retrieved from polémicahttps://www.publico.pt/local/ noticia/projecto-urbanistico-que-inclui-academia-aga-khan-em-cascaisgera-polemica-1628353

Images (bachelor projects GUC) Diversity within Unity / Dina Amin Shehab (p. 48) A Ponte de Cultura / Shrouk Yahia (p. 49)

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Aktan Acar From

TOBB University of Economics and Technology Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Architecture, Turkey

Behind is the death! Is Heaven ahead?

Purgatory, in some beliefs, is a temporary place or state of suffering, misery, or punishment for the past sins to be purged and become fit for heaven. Besides religious narratives, it has been subjected to a number of aesthetic explorations especially by Dante Alighieri in Divina Comedia, which had inspired many artists to depict their vision of purgatories1. It is used usually to refer an in-betweenness as a result of circumstances. Whether it is metaphysical or not, the hope and salvation on the horizon characterize the promise of that temporary state. This promise motivates the sufferers’ survival instinct, makes them stubborn fighters. Today, the massive humanitarian crises of the Middle East and Africa incarnate that metaphysical or allegorical image of 1 Gustav Doré, Cristóbal Rojas, and Annibale Carracci can be named as few of them.

purgatory. The temporary shelters and camps for the refugees, asylum seekers, and returners turn out to be the phantom zones for the displaced people who is tormented by the evilest of evils, hope2. Indeed, those camps established, managed and supported by the commissions of UN, volunteers, NGO’s and the local - governmental authorities are crucial parts of humanitarian aid. Those camps are, nevertheless, defining an 2 Phantom Zone is a fictional interdimensional realm appeared in Superman series of DC Comics. It is out of normal space and time continuity. The personality and minds of those who are forced to stay in this barren area are not influenced but they lose their corporeality. It was introduced as an alternative dimension and means of imprisonment for the criminals of Krypton, home of Superman. For further information, please see http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Phantom_ Zone. It was Friedrich Nietzsche who claimed hope, which remained within Pandora’s box, as the worst of evils since “it lengthens” the agony of humanity. See Nietzsche, F., 1995, Human, All Too Human I, Stanford University Press: Stanford, California.

in-betweenness, a phantom-zone for an indefinite temporary stay between their final destination in Europe or USA and the war and destruction behind. The increasing public sensitivity has echoed in architectural schools, construction industry, and many other sectors regarding temporary, lightweight, sustainable, hygenic, lowcost, well-designed, easy-to-transport solutions. Unfortunately, the responses of the industry and the profession have quickly turned to be pin-up images out of social media, architectural magazines and portals. It has become a sort of competition of “ideas for the best architectural design solution”. In fact, the inhabitants of those camps have better skills in appropriating available material and tools to correspond the conditions of their permanent temporary stay. They transform, utilize and aestheticize their place in order to keep their hope alive. Especially stories publicized by mass media create and

increase the awareness, unfortunately mostly, on the basis of pity, mercy, sympathy, and tolerance. But, it is all about rights, rather than the emotions and sensitivity. The human rights that are indivisible, interrelated, and interdependent… Right to life, equality before the law, freedom of expression, right to work, right to social security, right to education, right to development and self-determination. The crises of humanity are all about the rights of the people who are left desolate primarily by wars. Shelters are supposed to have a key role in restoring security, self-sufficiency and selfrespect. Those temporary settlements, humanitarian aids and campaigns, however, are mostly magnified through hope. Hope motivates their will of survive at the expense of abandoning their rights. The emergency and extensity of the issue have made the shelters a popular theme for architectural workshops and studio works in architectural education. A number of precious and peculiar design solution have been developed all around the world, which could only be helpful in constructing better purgatories. Instead, new forms of societies and human settlements can be imagined and explored. Utopias can be reconsidered, again. Ideas, shaped around particular social theory, formed their own physical and intellectual atmosphere can be proposed. They can be manifested for the arrival points of the victims of humanitarian crisis, and the homelands, as well, which suffers wars, shortage of food and water, disasters, and epidemics. In this respect, the theme and context of European workshops on Waterfront Urban Design (EWWUD) 2016 was a great opportunity to reconsider the humanitarian crisis and particularly mass displacement. It can be an initial manifest of a new utopia. Instead of concentrating on the temporary solutions for inbetween phantom-zones of refugee camps, the topic raised a question about the object of the hope, that is, the arrival point: The region of Cascais, bay and especially the marina: a concrete realisation of wealth and capital; magnificent coast, and fashionable tourist destination for its history and activities for leisure. Besides social and geographical qualities, Cascais has a

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Architects need to lay the “why” and “how” stones of their path to truth and a better world. number of distinguishing characteristics. The planning and management experience of the city of Cascais is outstanding. The transportation system / network connecting the area to the capital city and other regions is efficient. Most importantly, the will of the local authorities for active participation and support to the academic activities considering projections for the future of the area is unique. The Octopus Research Institute was an initial idea sparked from the students’ analysis of the area, potentials, and the theme itself. The main objective introduced by the students was to utilize the physical, cultural, social and financial capital of the city for integration and foundation of better world on the basis of the human rights. Basically, it is an international higher education/research institute for maritime science and technology funded and supported by the own sources of the city. Students considered it as a generator that would trigger a transformation for the city, an integration mechanism for the incomers. They showed a critical sensitivity to avoid any criteria for eligibility that could imply exclusion or particular inclusion of identities. After having placed the idea of an institute at the core, students proposed a set of architectural solutions for interrelated issues: Transformation of the marina to meet the academic and spatial requirements of the institute; developing a plan for the accommodation of the incomers; setting up a marine transportation route between Cascais and Lisbon, which would make the facilities more accessible; and the architectural, physical, and social sustainability of the project. Based on their life experience in various cities Europe, students have developed threefold accommodation plan, which could increase the existing bed capacity including dorms, hotels and

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hostels. The renovation of the abandoned or ruined houses and mansions was considered in relation to the spatial continuum of the city life and rehabilitation of the less secure areas. Due to the aging population, the landlords could be encouraged to accommodate incomers who would assist their hosts by paying rent and helping for their daily routines. Sustainable, energy efficient, and lightweight student housing units were third part of the plan. In addition to the social, cultural, spatial, and financial sustainability of the proposal, the use of renewable energy sources was a crucial issue, too. Students investigated the alternative technologies to produce energy from waves around the walls of marina, solar panels, and the dynamic façade systems with algal biomass. It is a sad and plain fact that neither architecture nor revolution can be avoided3. As a true believer of the power of architecture, Le Corbusier was indicating a creative act motivated by ideas larger than life and architecture itself. It is an architecture of which ultimate objective is not the building, but the realization of the ideas through spatial construction. Today, the enormity of the wars, crises, displacements, and the effects are creating a disintegration, a dissociative distance among the most humanly aspect of our kind. Ideas that are larger than life are obscured by the devastation. In this context, the architect should not turn itself to the mesmerizing attraction of will to power incarnated through design act, and the visual pornography of the architectural product. Instead, architects need to lay the “why” and “how” stones of their path to truth and a better world. A design proposal concerning the indivisible and interrelated rights of humanity might be a modest start for the participants in their search for a better world, out of artificial purgatories. In the end, “what distinguishes architecture is not what is done, …. but how it is done.”4 

3 “Architecture or Revolution. Revolution can be avoided.” Le Corbusier, 1986, Towards a New Architecture, trans. Frederick Etchells, Dover Publications: New York. 4 Banham, R., 1997, A Black Box, in A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner Banham, University of California Press: California.

Team Project

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Cornelia Redeker Aktan Acar Pedro Garcia

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Nik Solina Christos Prokopiou Mats Pollumaa Athina Athiana Nina Hutter Johanna Grau Franziska Dehm Iris Pedro

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b. Ferry terminal station

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Possible areas for the student housing

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Renée Tribble Irene Curulli Bernardo Vaz Pinto

Students

Florian Hartmann Alejandro Garin Odriozola Suna Yalçin Tjaša Kobi Hadeer ElSokhn Angeliki Chalkia Armanda Bartolomeu Adonis Quiawacana

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Concept: Borders between zones

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Concept "Existing green"

Concept "Green Island"

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Concept "Bike lanes"

Concept "Bike lanes through old city"

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Project: Floating Bridge

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Kostas Sakantamis Katarzyna Urbanowicz From

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering – School of Architecture, Greece Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Poland

Lx Transfolds: Intimacy from Structure and Order

Keywords: Detail, Structure, Intimacy, Folding, Movement, Urban Furniture

Praça do Comércio is an important place in the city of Lisbon – a public square that is significant for the citizens as a constituent of the city's identity, which location gives it a symbolic meaning of a gate to the outside world behind the seas, but also as a doorway for the incomers to the great city of Lisbon. The international group of students participating in the International Week @ ULHT 2016 was given a very challenging and ambiguous task of proposing a project in this characteristic and quite defined space of the city. The intervention proposed here builds upon the historic and symbolic significance of the public space. The site of the Praça do Comércio diachronically signifies the place of connection between Lisbon and the rest of the world, the Cais das Colunas forming a clear demarcation of a point of migration.

Migration I: Once the palace square, this central open space was conceived as part of an extension of Lisbon, outside the city walls, a remodeling of the banks of the Tagus river including a port, shipbuilding facilities and other administrative buildings that regulated commerce between Portugal, its colonies and other parts of Europe. Migration II: The drastic remodeling of the space, instigated by the 1775 earthquake, transformed it into the central public space of Lisbon. As the centerpiece of the Pombaline Baixa, the square carries, to this day, the symbols of royalty; the space’s egalitarian use was nevertheless to foreshadow the demise

of royalty itself. At the same time, structural efficiency of the Pombaline cage signifies the power of enlightenment, the prevalence of science over nature.

Migration III: : The symbolic significance of the place is to this day enforced by ministerial functions that are housed in the buildings (albeit reminiscent of the royal palace) that flank the square. The space is central to the city’s network of open spaces and performs as a transportation interchange between the metro, buses, trams and waterways. Geometry and symmetry shape the place into a central open space of grandiose proportions. First experiences of the vast empty square were instrumental in shaping the analysis into studies concerned with: public Vs

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intimate spaces for rest and recreation that allow a more relaxed experience of the cityscape. The ferry terminals – old and new – form an effective extension to the plaza which is currently unexplored in terms of urban design. The large open space shows clear signs of neglect while the abandoned old ferry terminal enforces the image of degradation, adopted as a makeshift living area for homeless people. The overall prevalent quality of the plaza lies in its openness, which can make it feel inhospitable when empty. On the other hand, the same quality makes it ideal for large public gatherings and festivities which mark civic and religious occasions – Christmas celebrations, music festivals, seasonal bazaars and farmer’s markets. In these occasions, it is not uncommon for the plaza to provide the space for temporary structures to be erected, a practice that has diachronically been applied to the specific place and can be traced back to the festivities for Filipe the 3rd ‘s entrance in the city of Lisbon. Therefore, the group focused their desing on proposing new temporary structures that would introduce new qualities in the

smaller - human scale in the everyday performance of the city spaces, but without intervening with the present character of the big open public space of the city.

restricted access open spaces, openness and intimacy in the urban context, adaptability and inclusivity of the open space. Analysis: The balcony of the Arco da Rua Augusta provided an initial vantage point for the documentation of urban life in the plaza. Video and stop-motion recordings were instrumental in allowing a better understanding of the function of the diagonal pattern of the square: the movement of tourists, visitors and commuters that quickly cross the plaza is delineated by the diagonal thoroughfares that directly link the various transport media. (pic. 1) The experience of the square at the pedestrian’s level quickly draws the eye to its perimeter, to the arcades and the waterfront which form more intimate spaces. While providing cover from rain and the sun, the arcades also provide access to historic cafes, restaurants and tourist attractions. These also allow visual access to annex open spaces, the atria of the ministerial buildings, which are nevertheless restricted to the public. The basis of the centrally located statue as well as the southern end of the plaza, the Cais das Colunas, a set of marble stairs which lead down to the water’s edge, provide

Temporary structures can serve as the unifying device between the different constituents of the new central complex while also allowing it flexibility in responding to its varying civic functions.

Synthesis: The above analysis steered the project team to explore the boundaries of the public space focusing on the concepts of temporariness and permanence, while also exploring dynamic and static structures. The whole approach intends to open new possibilities for the appropriation of the public space, a soft intervention allowing people to adjust the space according to their needs, that resulted with the introduction of movable, transformable and adaptable structures. Paying homage to the structural efficiency of the Pombaline cage, the design explored the inherent structural flexibility of the origami foldings in order to come up with a repertoire of extendable and adaptable structures that can provide shelter and shade, intimate seating areas, places for recreation, play and information. The overarching strategy formed by the design extends

the public space of the plaza to the restricted atria of the ministerial buildings and to the abandoned ferry terminal which borders the square (pic. 2). Temporary structures can serve as the unifying device between the different constituents of the new central complex while also allowing it flexibility in responding to its varying civic functions. The ultimate goal of the temporary structures is to maximize the usability of the space while minimizing the inherent emptiness of large – underused open spaces (pic. 3). The proposed design approach could stimulate public life not only during special occasions but especially in the everyday city experience. It is a subtle adjustable intervention that brings a new quality and set of possibilities for the space users, while respecting the symbolic and historical context of the place. LX Transfolds is one of the selected international projects

featured in the context of the “Sheltering Humanity: Emergency-hosting proposals for people in the Mediterranean Sea” exhibition, organized by MOHA, at Mohamet Ali’ s House, old city of Kavala, Northern Greece (21 October - 15 December 2016).

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Rui Nogueira Simões From

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Portugal

Wall-Come. Transposable Walls Expression of Concepts through Constructive Details

“The reality of architecture is what is tangible, what took shape, mass and space, and body. There is no idea, except in things (…) Architecture is always a specific matter. Architecture is not abstract but real. A sketch, a project drawn on paper, is not architecture, but just a more or less imperfect representation of the architecture, comparable to music notes. Music requires presentation. Architecture needs materialization. That is when it takes shape, always a sensuous shape.” Peter Zumthor in “Thinking Architecture” PRESENTATION Knowledge of construction enables the idea of the architectural object and its lack of knowledge is the guarantee for architectural ruin, leaving to others the main responsibility, which implies the

creation of a visible and tactile building and the definition of the interior design of the room. The architectural object has its maximum expression in the constructed reality. When designing the building, the architect seeks a solution to a number of problems in order to achieve the result desired. Often the technical solution as an expression of an idea contributes to the architectural concept in a clearer way. The simplicity of ideas, economy, efficiency, standardization, lightness, lighting and many others ensue only in the architectural expression if informed by the same concepts in the choice of technical solutions. The technical drawing is a mediator for the design and execution of the building, and should state clearly the procedures for building it. If managed on an abstract way and detached

from logic and constructive implications, the scheme loses its relationship with the architectural object, and ceases to be the mean for its realization. The inability of representation is caused most of the times by the lack of knowledge on construction. “Many architects currently conceive processes and teach drawing techniques without regarding the reality of construction. The tyranny of the drawings is evident in many buildings in which the builder is literally following the sketch. The reality belongs to the drawing, not to the building. [...] the buildings relate so directly to the architect settings and they are so disconnected from the construction operation that the only reference is the drawing. But a true architectural drawing should especially involve the knowledge of construction», Rafael Moneo in “The Solitude of Buildings”

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MIGRATIONS – Architecture and Territory in times of change International Week at ULHT - Lisbon

“wall-come", constructible with lightweight materials made from modular elements. combined with each other, each element must be able to be inserted into a cube of 5x5x5 and should have a single task. It is necessary to design at least, a shelter house, an equipment for social support.

Every day, thousands of people are forced to leave their homes and seek refuge to escape the violence in their own countries or abroad. The scale of displacement is huge and while there are still conflicts, the numbers continue to grow. About 60 million people are displaced worldwide- there was no record of so many escapes from conflicts since the Second World War. “Europe is now confronted with these dramas and tensions, uncommon in the history of the European Union. The way to address this crisis, as in internal management as in the use and implementation of appropriate legal instruments, world leadership may take on a new international refugee law, that will map its future. It is here, in its human dimension, in the confrontation with its history and its values, the future of the European Union”. Gonçalo Saraiva Matias, Director of Observatório das Migrações.

STUDIO - WALL_COME, TRANSPOSABLE WALLS Expression of concept through the constructive detail 1. This proposal has two moments, one as general concept of work, and a second for a theme proposal for a theoretical and practical study. A - The dramatic historical moment we are currently living is keeping some borders closed in the European Community; we propose a “wall-come”. transposable- walls, shelters that deconstruct the concept of “wall”. B - Theoretical and practical study: we want to make a proposal with the title “Wall-come" – evolution and the concept of the expression through the detail - in which the work program would be: 1 - Design of a continuous / infinite object from the concept of

2 - Technical project development and representation through one detailed scale section, for each module, designed or model, chosen to demonstrate the concept of the project. 

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Kasya Urbanowicz Kostas Sakadamis Rui Nogueira Simões Filipa Antunes

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Boštjan Kopinšek Cagatay Erbas Lukas Bachsoliani Nadine Heweidy Arpi Mangasaryan Bengusu Cebecí-Sayin Olga Bermann Rosa Bequengue Luisa Miala

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Andreas Flora Gerald Haselwanter Margarida Valla Tiago Queiroz Johannes Kalvelage Vasco Santos Pinheiro Maria João Matos Students

Miran Alijagić Murat Kartop Silvana Moreira Shrouk Yahia Georgia Petri Anastasia Voutsa Richa Arora Patrick Helder Marcelo Rafael Utku Coşkuner Guşef Bage Sara Švab Omnia Lotfy Stergiopoulou Panagiota Claudia Hentschel Joao P. Serafim

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Prof. Pedro Ressano Garcia From

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Portugal

Conclusion

Migration generates the resettlement of people to other locations. Climate change and its consequences are affecting groups of people that become increasingly vulnerable. The condition of the migrant is to be misplaced, to be put in an unfamiliar space. The permanent lack of not belonging, to one particular location and to a particular community. Migrations cover a variety of groups, communities that are not similar, yet they all share the condition of passage. Misplaced, vulnerable and in transition migrants hope for the best. They escape from “hell” and search for “heaven” as it is agued by Prof. Aktan Acar keynote speaker at the opening session. One of the aims of the workshop was to share knowledge on the topic and guide each participant to learn about the influence of those moving into new communities.

The participants at the workshop came from different schools located in different countries. Fine Arts, Design & Architecture Faculty - Tobb University of Economics and Technology Ankara, Turkey, Ul Fakultetaza Arhitekturo Ljubljana, Slovenia, German University in Cairo – GUC, Egypt, Eindhoven University of Technology – Department of the Built Environment, Netherlands, Aristotle University of Thessaloniiki, Greece, Hcu Hafencity Universität Hamburg Städtebau und Quartier Plangung, Germany, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, Leopold-Franzens-Universitat Innsbruck, Austria, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Gazi University Ankara, Turkey. The diversity of cultures, religions and languages among the participants had one cause in common. All acknowledge

the existence of migrations in their own families in a near past. Migratory movements are familiar to all, either coming from Europe, Africa or the Middle East. The topic brought all together and gave them a motive, the awareness that migrant is not a distant human on the news, migrations can touch each of us. The topic has an increasingly growing influence on the contemporary debate on the built environment and in particular on the waterfront. Before diving into the discussion regarding the constrains and the opportunities faced along the waterfront territory, each studio had access to rigorous data collected from various fields of expertise. The collection of data covers topics related to the community and the built environment influenced by the consequences of migratory

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The diversity of cultures, religions and languages among the participants had one cause in common. All acknowledge the existence of migrations in their own families in a near past. Migratory movements are familiar to all, either coming from Europe, Africa or the Middle East. movements. It introduces a number of new parameters that raise the discussion to a different realm and it influences the complexity of waterfront urban areas. Most of the solutions present changes in the built environment and impose transformation worth discussing. Architecture and Urban Design hold a share of the responsibility for improving the cities. Change is necessary, to recreate and repair the present condition, to integrate the communities and blur the negative impacts for those in need to migrate. The six groups present ideas to imagine solutions responding to the new circumstances and explore the opportunities that exist to

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integrate migrations. Visions that intend to adapt to change, to integrate and to include.

The improvement of water collection and filter of rain water, in most cases are invisible infrastructures, or visible though the constructed wetlands to improve septic tanks and drainage pipes. New infrastructures integrate in their design contributions for the sustainability of the built environment. The promotion of the identity and the enhancement of sustainable strategies lead to the improvement of the urban resilience. Design solutions accommodate and promote the public use of the territory in land and on the water. The implementation of renewable sources of energy (hydraulic, solar, etc.) combine with maritime engineering and marine biology promote a broader understanding of the waterfront that deals with the fragile equilibrium between water and land and those migrating across the two worlds.ď Ž

Along the areas of intervention, the local communities hold a high percentage of college educated people. The inquires made to the local community show that the majority tend to be supportive and friendly to migrants. In general, social groups exposed to diversity are more permeable to engage change and welcome new communities. However, one of the first challenges is the variety of opinions expressed among the local community. While most agree on the necessity to integrate and host newcomers many disagree on the budget required improving and adapting to the risks involved. The design proposals cover a variety of strategies: New piers host the professional activity of the local fishermanÂ´s, promote the commercial activity of the community, by host their needs for fishing and mooring and simultaneously offer a promenade for visitors, either seasonal or tourists. The design integrates social groups that work and live there while offering the possibility to others who do not belong. They contribute to solve existing problems, such as the urban barrier of the railway, the obstructed views and the lack of character that are identified as the most dominant threats to the built environment. The new ferry terminal, pools and platforms, floating fish market and the naval club are imaginative illustrations. New visions, referring the existing parameters, formulate hypothesis where the community take advantage of the new facilities. The centre of migration, the waterfront promenade and the redesign of walls intend to rethink and repair the existing condition that do not promote the inclusion of migrants in the local community. By adding new layers of complexity in the design the proposals become easier to be inhabit by public space and richer for the community. The knowledge and enhancement of the existing character, exiting on site, has the capacity to promote the local identity.