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City-Port Interface
The City-Port Interface: A Resource for Diverse Development Projects
Promoting the architectural and landscape integration of port facilities.
How can the port authority highlight infrastructure with artistic interventions to improve its integration and visibility?
The architectural design of public spaces, buildings and port infrastructure, whether they are new constructions or existing ones, can leverage light, colour, and materials as crucial components. These elements play a significant role in transforming the often-negative industrial perception associated with port cities. By creatively using these elements, such as in Dock F of Buenos Aires, where the old sand silos have been refurbished with artistic interventions to provide a new image for the port, the citizens can enjoy their port heritage through a new creative light.
This good practice also includes objective 6.2 (Integrating spaces and functions open to residents and visitors alike into port facilities, enhancing the visibility of the port and its activities) of the AIVP’s 2030 Agenda.
In 2017, the port authorities, in collaboration with municipal authorities, embarked on a transformation project for the primarily abandoned area around Dock F. It was decided that this area, which houses ten sand silos crucial for distributing 50% of the city's construction sand, should also be turned into a promenade.
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