Patras Riverfront Study

Master Planning | Patras | 2020

Patras Riverfront Study

Location
Patras
Year
2020
Status
Study
Programme
Riverfront feasibility
Gross area
3.1 km
Structure
Study, not built

A study, not a masterplan: we were asked what the river could carry, and the answer was less building than the brief assumed. We published it in full, including the parts that argued against the commission.

Seven crossings exist; the study keeps five and argues that two should go, which was not what anybody wanted to hear.

Patras Riverfront Study, general view

The flood modelling was done to a one-in-one-hundred-year return period, which at the time was not required and is now standard.

640 trees, all of them species already growing within 2 km of the river. No commission followed. We would do it again.

Patras Riverfront Study, detail
Patras Riverfront Study, detail
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