Crossing the Waterscape by Minyoung Jamie Choi is a waterfront architecture thesis about public space, coastal revitalisation and the role of water in urban life.
Set in Tangier, Morocco, the project looks at how a dormant concrete platform near Port de Tanger Ville could become a more generous public realm for locals and visitors.
Project overview
Minyoung developed the project after studying at the University of Edinburgh, with a wider interest in public realms, green spaces and revitalising underused urban sites.
The thesis explores blue public areas: civic spaces shaped around water, movement, leisure and exchange. Instead of treating the waterfront only as a tourist image, the project asks how it can support day-to-day urban life.
The design idea
- Transform a dormant concrete platform into an urban-residential park.
- Use a sweeping canopy to organise water-related commercial and leisure uses.
- Create a shared setting for local residents and tourists.
- Link coastal identity with public realm, movement and civic activity.
Portfolio lesson
Waterfront projects can become vague quickly. A stronger portfolio explains the site pressure, who uses the public space, how water shapes the programme and why the design is more than a scenic edge condition.
Showcase a waterfront or public-realm project
Architecture Social can feature student projects that explore coastal cities, public realm, landscape, regeneration or civic infrastructure.
- Explain the city and site pressure clearly.
- Show who the public space is designed for.
- Connect landscape, architecture and movement.
- Use project images and drawings that make the proposal easy to read.
Architecture Social view
Stephen’s recruiter view is that public-realm work should make the social purpose tangible. If the project is about revitalisation, the reader needs to see what has changed for the people using the space.
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