The general philosophy of approach to the problematic of the project parts of the constraints and guidelines of the competition to develop some ideas into the intervention program, integrated in a wider urban area.

Accessibility, rehabilitation of built heritage and introduction of new functions are the main points of the project.

Unlike the marine waterfront, the river waterfronts claim an overview of the two sides.

In Porto, as in Rome, Berlin, Paris, Turin, Bordeaux, the problem is how to reintegrate the river in the city, how to make of the waterfront as an asset and an element of identity.

Of the international experiences some lines of action result with evidence

The river waterfronts propose the access and pedestrian continuity. New fronts are characterized by the riverside walks and cycle routes, the continuity of public spaces, by the access to the quay

From the waterfront the pedestrian paths enter the city following a strategy of reconnection.

The Modernity of Porto begins with the Ponte D. Maria de Eiffel. Its development and its image will probably still depend on the bridges,

The river is the natural element on which largely focuses attention to the environmental sustainability and continuity.

In the rehabilitation programs of riparian fronts, the performance, according to a strategic plan, of a system of public works, infrastructure and interventions for an environmental sanitation, and the geotechnical consolidation, form the basis by which start a process of intervention.

To give Architecture and landscape shapes to degraded and abandoned areas, their slopes over the river as part of those already built, or those on which are build empty urban degradation, constitutes a precise line of intervention

Like a virtual mirror the riparian front asks to be seen on the other side. The interventions envisaged want foreshadow new points of view, imagine the transformation of the architecture of the riverside fronts during the hours of day and get your new image night.