This proposal introduces the idea of the collision of forces for its potential to generate interaction. By creating pockets of congregation where collision happens as a means of initiating interaction, these two communities will coincide rather than just coexist. The moment of collision between them will spark tolerance - it will be the moment where there is a common understanding between both sides. It will be the moment where the grey area is no longer perceived as an area of ambiguity but rather an area of congregation and assurance.

Urban thinker Richard Sennett introduces the idea of how most activity should in fact happen on the edge/border of a city or any form community. The importance of this intermediary space between inside and outside was not something developed but rather exists in nature itself. An important ecological example in Havana context would be, when water meets land. Havana extensive coastline whereby the moment of collision/edge condition is the essence of life itself, becoming an active space of exchange. Now, there are actually three components working in coherence; inside (main land), outside (sea) and the space in between.

Furthermore, the natural encounter between sea and city in the case of Havana is a moment where the rational city grid is disrupted to negotiate with the sea. Havana urban fabric is made of a sequence of grids developed through history that expands, nestling the city within it, until eventually the grid confronts a natural edge. A natural encounter, where water meets land. By placing the proposal on a natural occurring edge of where water meets land, it puts an emphasis on this idea of tolerance and negotiation; not only between water and land, grid and sea, but tourist and locals.

Landscaper Olmsted describes a nature as an ongoing project in constant evolution. Following his reflection, nature can be seen as an element that supersedes the time of both communities that inhabit its space. There- fore, nature is at the top of the hierarchy and tourists and locals will abide by its conditions. Moreover, the proposal would act as an exemplary for Central Havana to look out to its periphery, its edge condition. Instead of superimposing a grid onto the edge, the architecture and topography will work coherently in order to mediate the human living condition with the environment so they evolve together. In this case the two components are acting as one and the collision happens not between the communities but rather in events/ moments within the restricted circulation