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INDEX PRESENTATION Project VISION & PRINCIPLES Concurso de Ideas para el Desarrollo de FIELDS OF WORK la Actuación Puerto-Ciudad en Arrecife de Lanzarote FIRM STRUCTURE DIVISIONS & SERVICES Location DIRECTORSSpain Lanzarote, SECTORS & PRODUCTS Year RESEARCH 2004 TEAM Client OFFICE Port Authority of Las Palmas CAREERS Status COMMITMENT TO QUALITY Invited Competition PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS Size CLIENTS 9 Ha PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS Scope of Work Urban Planning Urban Design Landscape Architecture Mobility Infrastructures Services Master Planning Landscape Design Infrastructure Design
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INTRODUCTION ARRECIFE WATERFRONT & MARINA
About us The pedestrian linking of multiple islets and reefs articulates the project Lab for Planning and Architecture (LPA) is an international practice operating in a multi-scale way in the field of bioclimatic design and urbanism, optimizing Arrecife is the capital of Lanzarote (Canary Islands). It has a unique geographical the principles of ecological and sustainable development to the singularities location formed by a group of rocky reefs, puddles and islets that constitute of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions and make its coastal front singular. The most interesting part of its history is the (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places effort to communicate the islets and urbanize the “puddles”. The bridge “Puente and spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and de Las Bolas”, built in the late sixteenth century, and the pool of San Gines are planning of LPA. some of the best examples to do this. Our intervention strategy consolidates LPApattern was founded in 2002, inthe Laswaterfront Palmas de Gran Canaria this of growth along and the port. (Canary Islands), a city known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory for The project consists of the extension of two pedestrian pathways along the testing the environmental and spatial potential of the geographies with “good coastal front, creating new pools and communicating the existing islets. weather”, andloop its connection with the advance practice of urbanism. LPAThe has The resulting generates urban spaces where new uses are placed. offices in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid. crossings of the loop generate nodes that host kiosks, meeting places and water-taxi stations. The operative system of LPA is framed in the intersection of two ongoing revolutions: the emergence of an ecological era and the new possibilities offered by Information Technologies (IT). With the social dynamics and environmental singularities of the places with good weather—as raw material— and the potential of digital tools—as a processing tool—, LPA has developed its own working methodology and has applied it in high sensitive environmental sectors such Leisure & Hospitality and Waterfronts & Maritime. The work of the office has been awarded in national and international competitions.
Lab for Planning and Architecture
Credits (LPA + UNStudio) Project Directors Juan Palop-Casado Ben Van Berkel Astrid Piber Design Team Bonifacio JimĂŠnez (Team Leader) Beatriz de la Torre David MartĂn
More Info International Ideas Competition Shortlisted Partnership UNStudio, Amsterdam
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