The Athenian coastline and the management of its individual parts is a subject of public thought today more than ever. The common ground of the different parts is their functional isolation from the inland which is mainly due to the passage of Avenue Poseidonos.

In this context, the project focuses on the area of Glyfada, and aims to repair the damage in the urban fabric caused by the Avenue through the study of ways in which a re-connection between the city and the shore could be achieved.

The thesis titled “[A] node: Coastal activities and transitions in the area of Glyfada” focuses on the creation of a central node of movements and activities. This node receives pedestrian and bicycle flows concentrated in the inland of the area and diffuses them on the beach and vice versa while at the same time activates and redefines the spatial relationships of coastal activities taking place at the point of connection.

It is a proposal for urban intervention, which concerns the coastal front of the area, with its main axis of vertical relationship with the inland of Glyfada and more broadly with its horizontal connection with all the individual pockets that develop on the coastline of Athens. The objectives of the project are the functional link of the beach with the rest of the area and the development of community activities within the local community and the planning of mild tourist activity in order to stimulate the local economy.