Reinstatement of Porto’s abandoned Customs Rail-Line as a moving market, transporting goods and people, in mobile carts which inhabit a framework perched on the Douro Cliffside.

Transcultural trade is reintroduced to an area where it had been forced out, with a system that also brings the market to new neighbourhoods along the Line. An artery of import and export is reimagined with a migratory and reconfigurable architecture that adapts to the city’s social and geological flows.

Working within the context of piecemeal gentrification and the exodus of local trade, the market mediates exchanges between locals and tourists, engaging the local community with a mobile typology. The project explores a form of architecture in constant flux, with adaptability to seasonal and daily conditions enabled by the strategy of transit and reconfiguration. It has a temporal nature in responding to the changing intensity of market activity, accommodating different situations of traders, porters, customers, and walkers along the Customs Line.