LA VISTA

Compared to its neighboring countries, Albania boasts a much more unspoiled coastline. In recent years, it has emerged as one of the fastest-growing countries in Europe, both economically and socially. Parallel to this development, the number of tourism investments in the region, which has coastlines on the Adriatic Sea in the north and the Ionian Sea in the south, is increasing day by day. Located in the Palase region, approximately 25 miles north of Corfu, Greece’s closest island to the Albanian coast, Green Coast Village is being built as a new settlement with various service and commercial venues, hotels, resorts, residences, social and cultural areas, sports facilities, and extensive communal green spaces. The masterplan for this project was created by EAA. The conceptual framework of this plan is based on reflecting the unique features and specific charm of being “Mediterranean” both in the structural and social fabric of the settlement, which will be built as a kind of coastal village. Settlement strategies such as blending into the topography, the use of simple and local materials, a kind of fragmented approach shaped by the human scale, and sophisticated mass compositions formed the physical backbone of the design.