Tide Builds

Team Point of View

In contrast to an extractive model, a proposal based on the latent proximity relationships in the territory is put forward. Rather than erasing the past or recreating a long-lost natural environment, a growth is suggested to emerge from the conditions of the past and the present, leading towards a new and identity-oriented future. The outcome will be an inclusive and synthetic nature, simultaneously wild and cultivated, renewed and constructed. In response to the land-sea duality, the project proposes an intermediate intertidal territory. A network of uses and spaces that emerge according to the tides, serving as a support for human activity and biodiversity, while also providing refuge against waves and floods. Establishing new relationships between users and habitats with water.

Jury Point of View

The proposal concentrates the main interventions and returns important portions of land to the river dynamics with a very clear framework of community, nature and hybrid measures. The strength of this proposal is the strategy of blurring the hard lines separating land and waters, with a long term, dynamic evolution, reframing the ecological and social value of the waters’ edge. It proposes clear spatial patterns, assuming that those edges have lost their natural trace and need to be designed but doing so in a way that natural dynamics will be able to flourish. This is probably the proposal that has a clearer understanding of the evolution over time, based in sea and river oscillations, deposition and erosion.