This exercise introduced a consolidated site that, that having been the target of several interventions, did not present an overarching idea of city front. The purpose lies in the design of an architectural and urban proposal that, respecting the condition of the platform and its surroundings, can change its present precarious situation. When setting the location of the program, it was taken into account the relationship of all parts of the platform with the surrounding buildings, interpreting, however, the platform as a space with some independence from the consolidated urban web. The Rua Nova da Alfândega works here as a  border between the platform space, its surroundings and the nearby city. After assuming the differences between the spaces one tried to relate them.

The residence appears in the east, freeing the end of the terain and keeping the visual framing with river Douro as arriving in Rua Nova da Alfandega, on the other hand it relates to the first block of the street, making succeed the first moment a more controlled one as people walk down the street and creating an alternative entry to the terain set by the volume that is projected above the train line and which gives rise to the library. The main building leans against the wall to allow circulation on the platform, while the floors are raised to safeguard the privacy of students. The modular structure to the interior of the residence is fully based on the module of eight students, and designed so that all rooms and common areas are facing south, the river Douro, the corridors of distribution are located in the north part.

The pavillion located on the opposite end, to the west, creates a relationship with an existing pavillion and confines a controlled entry to the field that relates the two volumes, pavillion and residence, trying to define the limits of the main space of the square. Summing up the location strategy of the new buildingsis based on a longitudinal axis, on this axis volumes define the public space at the same time as they create a relation with the surrounding buildings.