- Date: 2013
- Location: Papeete, French Polynesia
- Phase: Conceptual Design
- Site Area: 4,000,000 m2
- Parter in charge: Thierry Melot
- Core Team: Vincent Bertin, Philippe Fabre, Liguo Li
- Office: AMA Shanghai
Vital to improve a poor quality of life and essential to change a generally negative image that prevents Papeete from assuming its status and role as the island’s leeward tourist showcase and epitomizing the Polynesian myth, the guided light transit system and the resulting restructuring of the seafront represent the two essential tools needed to ensure Tahiti’s future economic development. The winning project, based on a radical proposal made by the consortium formed, has been extended by a study carried out for the construction of a dedicated public transport corridor. This solution represents the logical conclusion to the urban diagnostic and is the key to the site’s capacity to undergo a form of urban restructuring that, until now, has been blocked by real estate problems and a completely unmanageable level of road traffic.