Approach #1

• Porto’s topographic and hydrographic characteristics have always been decisive in the definition of the city’s personality. Considering the dominance of the river as a territorial reference and the varying and characteristic elevation of the city, we were attracted to the idea of exploring the connections between different elevation points in the city in relation to the location of the river.

• In parallel, we needed a conceptual trigger in our search for visual forms and shapes that could serve as the basis for the identity. Creating these forms through an expressing of the city’s physicality seemed an interesting possibility. The idea was to generate a series of visual folds formed by an imagined intersection of two or more points related to elavation. It is a location driven idea, enabling the creation of an endless array of shapes depending on the geographic position of an individual, building or institution.

