River Evros is today the natural border between Greece and Turkey. The city of Orestiada situated 5 km away from the border is completely cut off the river, since the riverbed has been demarcated restricted area for civilians by the army. Apart from the national border, successive physical boundaries in the territory -dykes , ditches and a railroad- further separate the city from its productive landscape.

The area of intervention is the central part of the railway. The continuity of the boundary is disrupted both in scale and time, through small-scale interventions and a long-term scheme adaptive to the city's scale. The'' eroding flow'' as the main characteristic of the river constitutes our design tool in order to reshape the ground of the area and connect city and farmland. ''Islands'' host several cultural, educational and commercial uses, while the ''eroding flow'' is a large public space for the city, where urban farming areas, open-air pavilions and exhibition spaces are arranged as ''branches carried away by the flow''.

Design Thesis 2013

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Team: Nafsika Efklidou, Dimitris Aggelis, Athina Georgopoulou

Thesis advisors: Stavros Vergopoulos, Evie Athanasiou