The urban project of the Paseo de la Costa, or waterfront avenue, in the city of Neuquén, extends the city’s growth beyond its currently existing terms, adapting the urban project to the exceptionally rich natural landscape of Argentina’s Patagonia region.

In this sense, the project has considered as a basic premise that urban and real-estate development can perfectly incorporate the environment as the fundamental value to preserve, and proposes to confer on a young city like Neuquén a central importance that reflects contemporary uses and a modern relation of the city with its two rivers.

The project of a new riverfront creates a focus of interest for this Patagonian capital, permitting urbanization of 600 hectares on the Limay River and its confluence with the Neuquén River, over a course of 20 kilometers of river coast.

Thus, in a first phase, between 2002 and 2004, OFICINA URBANA produced an integral plan for this land, creating a site over the previous geography in which the urban project was treated as a set of integrated pieces by way of traffic roads that, through their design, trace furrows over the land, delimiting the various building spaces without forming a traditional connection between them.