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Crossing the Waterscape

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Her thesis project, Crossing the Waterscape, explores the possibility of ‘blue’ public spaces – expanding the familiar concept of green spaces for the coastal city of Tangier, Morocco, with a prominent tourism industry owing to its proximity to Spain.

Project context
Conceptual

The brief

The question behind the work.

The project is situated on an empty concrete platform, artificially formed for a high-end marina development and located beneath the tourist-focused Port de Tanger Ville. Now, a large canopy traverses the site, sheltering various water-related commercial and leisure programmes, also embedding the site with rainwater treatment systems – a public oasis designed to mitigate the city’s crisis with water supply.

The project proposes to transform this once uninhabited space into a meeting point for the tourists and the residents of Tangier through the common theme of water.

Development

From brief to outcome.

Development view 2

Development 1

The project is situated on an empty concrete platform, artificially formed for a high-end marina development and located beneath the tourist-focused Port de Tanger Ville. Now, a large canopy traverses the site, sheltering various water-related commercial and leisure programmes, also embedding the site with rainwater treatment systems – a public oasis designed to mitigate the city’s crisis with water supply.

Development view 3

Development 2

The project proposes to transform this once uninhabited space into a meeting point for the tourists and the residents of Tangier through the common theme of water.

Development view 4
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Credits

Designer study history
University of Edinburgh

The author

Minyoung Jamie Choi

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