South West St Helier
An aerial master-planning precedent for integrating a dense urban waterfront with a curving public beach promenade and protected marina.
- What we like about this project
- Curved seawall seamlessly transitions into a stepped terraced beach promenade.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- asphalt
- sand
- granite-sea-wall
Visual identifiers
- waterfront-promenade
- coastal-development
- harbor-marina
- beachfront
Style tags
- contemporary
- coastal
- master-plan
Visual tags
- master-planning
- urban-design
- coastal
- public-realm
- waterfront
- Geometry
- Curvilinear waterfront promenade and sea wall follow the natural arc of the sandy beach, contrasting with the dense orthogonal street grid and mid-rise blocks inland.
- Facade system
- Mixed mid-rise fenestration patterns across various contemporary apartment and commercial blocks.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frames for urban blocks with heavy seawall engineering along the shore.
- Spatial scale
- Macro urban scale showing multi-block neighborhoods, wide coastal roads, and a large public beach frontage.
- Lighting
- Bright afternoon sunlight from the right, casting soft long shadows from buildings and street trees toward the inland side.
- Atmosphere
- Expansive, bright, and breezy coastal atmosphere contrasting urban density with open sea.
- Environmental context
- Coastal waterfront setting adjacent to a large harbor marina, sandy beach, and extensive marine horizon under a clear sky.
- Spatial experience
- Vast horizontal expanses open up from the high vantage point, connecting the bustling urban waterfront road directly to the calm marine horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal sweep of the coastline and promenade balanced by the clustered vertical blocks of the city center.
- Style reading
- Contemporary coastal master planning
- Program
- Mixed-use coastal urban quarter
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban
- Materials
- concrete, glass, asphalt, sand, granite-sea-wall
- Visual identifiers
- waterfront-promenade, coastal-development, harbor-marina, beachfront
- Style tags
- contemporary, coastal, master-plan
- Visual tags
- master-planning, urban-design, coastal, public-realm, waterfront
- Geometry
- Curvilinear waterfront promenade and sea wall follow the natural arc of the sandy beach, contrasting with the dense orthogonal street grid and mid-rise blocks inland.
- Facade system
- Mixed mid-rise fenestration patterns across various contemporary apartment and commercial blocks.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frames for urban blocks with heavy seawall engineering along the shore.
- Spatial scale
- Macro urban scale showing multi-block neighborhoods, wide coastal roads, and a large public beach frontage.
- Lighting
- Bright afternoon sunlight from the right, casting soft long shadows from buildings and street trees toward the inland side.
- Atmosphere
- Expansive, bright, and breezy coastal atmosphere contrasting urban density with open sea.
- Environmental context
- Coastal waterfront setting adjacent to a large harbor marina, sandy beach, and extensive marine horizon under a clear sky.
- Spatial experience
- Vast horizontal expanses open up from the high vantage point, connecting the bustling urban waterfront road directly to the calm marine horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal sweep of the coastline and promenade balanced by the clustered vertical blocks of the city center.
- Style reading
- Contemporary coastal master planning
- Program
- Mixed-use coastal urban quarter
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban