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INDEX PRESENTATION Project VISION & PRINCIPLES Concurso de Ideas para la Rehabilitación FIELDS OF Integral de WORK las Zonas Turísticas de Calvià FIRM STRUCTURE Location DIVISIONSSpain & SERVICES Mallorca, DIRECTORS Year SECTORS & PRODUCTS 2009 RESEARCH Client TEAM Calvià Municipality OFFICE Status CAREERS Competition COMMITMENT TO QUALITY
PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS Size 450 Ha CLIENTS PUBLICATIONS Scope of Work& EXHIBITIONS Urban Development Urban Planning Urban Design Services Land-Use Plan Master Planning Landscape Design
2nd prize in International Ideas Competition
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INTRODUCTION CALVIA COASTAL & TOURIST DEVELOPMENT
About us “Cavities” and “convexities” of the coast drive a location of potential tourist Lab fordevelopments Planning and Architecture (LPA) is an international practice operating in a multi-scale way in the field of bioclimatic design and urbanism, optimizing The municipality of Calvia is situated on the southwest end of the island of the principles of ecological and sustainable development to the singularities Mallorca. It has nearly 60 kilometres of coastline and it concentrates more than of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions 50,000 tourist beds and as many second homes which totals for more than (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places 50% of the tourist accommodation on the Island. The proposal is based on the and spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and geographic system of “cavities” and “convexities” that characterizes Calvia’s planning of LPA. coast. The design strategy aims to recover and update the development pattern LPA was founded 2002, in Las Palmas Gran Canaria Islands), a city of the first tourist in settlements where thede “cavities” of the(Canary coast hosted tourist known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory for enclaves while the “convexities” were maintained as landscape reservoirs. This testing the environmental and spatial potential of the geographies with “good pattern is the basis of the vivid image that characterizes the Majorcan coast, weather”, and itsofconnection withsustainable the advance practice of urbanism. LPA has and an example intelligent and development of the waterfront. offices in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid. The project also includes a model of sustainable mobility and eight tourist enclaves, each system with its of own unique identity and tourist profile. The operative 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 Project Directors Juan Palop-Casado Leopoldo Arnaiz Eguren Miguel Ruano Planning Team Ignacio López Busón (Team Leader) Fernando Portillo Rubén Ginorio Laura Rodríguez Eva Padrón Bentejuí Hernández Sergio Alexis Javier González
Collaborators Planning & Legal Iris Pastor Beatriz Enríquez Gerardo Otero Olga Fernández Silvia Rodríguez Tourist Strategy Jose Antonio Rodríguez (Hotel Director) Susana Sariego Infrastructures Jorge Calle Tesoro Luis Angel Pichot Environment Claudio Pérez López Sociology Mar Mechán GIS Ignacio Arnaiz David Zazo Polo Arnaiz Visualisation Raúl Rubio Prudencio Fernández José Antonio Palomares Carolina Tello Sebas García Jorge Ros Drafting David Sanjuan Fernando San Gregorio
More Info International Ideas Competition 2nd prize
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