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This post hoc, observational study analyzes 22 student proposals for a paddle school on a defended coastal headland in Cascais, Portugal, to reveal siting patterns and test convergence toward an expert recommendation. Each project is mapped onto a common grid and encoded as building mass and external paths, and a site-specific expert prior is formalized as a polygon that follows the defended wall and upper terrace, combining edge protection, elevation, and ocean prospect. Alignment with this prior is assessed using exact permutation tests under uniform and elevation-stratified random siting, and each proposal is summarized by three descriptors that capture where mass concentrates, how far it extends, and how broadly it uses the site. Results show a pronounced nucleus along the upper terrace, a contour-parallel circulation spine, and extensive underused areas elsewhere, with alignment to the expert prior significantly above chance. Clustering projects by the three descriptors differentiates siting families, from edge-anchored schemes to prospect-led variants and a small set of deliberate counterexamples. 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