‘Diffused Port’,
Limassol, Cyprus

Tutors: Socrates Stratis

2009-10

What if, for the sake of pedagogical purposes, some of the port activities could be diffuses into an urban environment? Consequently, the heart of the urban design pedagogical project becomes the management of the conflictual proximities of uses and of condition of porosity. The students were invited to design new urban conditions produced by such superimposition. They managed creatively, some of the flows diffused by the port activities within the urban elements, (spatial and programmatic). The study area is located in brown field between the old and new port of Limassol, Cyprus. It is very close to the city's historical centre with increasing developing pressures such as a newly built private marina enclave and a waterfront tourist development. The students' work advocated for the presence of the public domain in such waterfront private developments by introducing firstly a complex programming, of port-city relations and secondly by supporting the urban everydayness.