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PUBLIC GROUND AS COASTAL DEFENCE

Imagining the Mediterranean beachfront by the Atlantic

Authors

  • Sérgio Barreiros Proença CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Francesca Dal Cin CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Cristiana Valente Monteiro Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Carlota Gala Licona Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
  • Maria Inês Franco Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/qru.11944

Abstract

The article explores the role of public ground composition design as a defence element for coastal agglomerations vulnerable to mean sea level rise in extreme weather events scenarios. It addresses one of the pilot case studies of the [ENTRA]MAR Urban form intertwined with the sea research project, Quarteira, a coastal city located in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, which is vulnerable to flooding and erosion phenomena. The article provides an opportunity to systematise the reading and interpretation phases and also the research by design phase based on scenario development that was conducted during the fourth-year design studio at the Lisbon School of Architecture of the Universidade de Lisboa and therefore, to share its preliminary results on “imagining the Mediterranean beachfront by the Atlantic”. Attributing Mediterranean values and characteristics to Quarteira involves, as Braudel wrote in “Les Mémoires de la Méditerranée”, observing the coastal landscapes over and over again, until the physical and urban characteristics are eloquently revealed and named. Finally, it is underlined the need to design the space between land and sea based on the inherited memory of the coastal landscape and the operative role the public ground design <may have as coastal defence.

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Published

2023-04-24

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No. 13 (2022): water, city and territory

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