This exercise was divided in several phases. Thus, it all started with the question, what’s your
Ideal City? The research was then made within a group of work until some concepts came up. With
those concepts the group was asked to project its forms in a specific site. This particular site was quite diverse, showing the results of an apparently uncontrolled growth of the city center to its surroundings, mixing housing with industrial, agricultural and patrimonial areas. Therefore, in the context of urban planning, it was required a master plan. Afterwards, each member of the group should bring up his own ideas and concepts to rehabilitate that territory. The next presentation concerns the development of my chosen area, divided in four sectors. These particular sectors were mainly concerned about a present and local problem, the polluted Leça River. For this reason, the principal goal of the project was the promotion of public spaces while creating several interventions in the extent of a trajectory. This virtual line should start in the train station of a colleague’s sector, go through the Leça do Balio’s Cathedral and end up in an historical and abandoned villa, then converted in a public gallery.