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INDEX PRESENTATION Project VISION & PRINCIPLES Ordenación del Frente Marítimo y FIELDS OF Parcela de WORK la Cicer FIRM STRUCTURE Location DIVISIONS & SERVICES Gran Canaria, Spain DIRECTORS Year SECTORS & PRODUCTS 2003 RESEARCH Client TEAM Las Palmas Municipality OFFICE Status CAREERS Competition COMMITMENT TO QUALITY Size PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS 4.500 m² CLIENTS
PUBLICATIONS Scope of Work& EXHIBITIONS Urban Design Landscape Architecture Mobility Infrastructures Services Infrastructure Design Landscape Design Building Design
3rd prize in International Ideas Competition
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INTRODUCTION CICER PLAZA
About us An equipped plaza as informal as the beach, and a beach as comfortable as a plaza 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 The code “Urban Beach” with which this project is launched, not only codifies the principles of ecological and sustainable development to the singularities but also explains the project’s strategy. The proposed public plaza combines of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions the flexibility of beach spaces along with the comfort levels of urban plazas. (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places The design consists of an undulating topography that connects the beach and spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and with the surrounding streets, located at an upper level. The resulting space planning of LPA. integrates pedestrian, urban and beach spaces in a coherent manner. Two LPA was founded in 2002, in Las Palmas Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), a city indoor boulevards run underground andde provide access to other amenities known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory for such as a wellness center, beach facilities and a sailing school. The claim testing the environmental and spatial potential of the geographies with “good “Under the pavers, the beach” perfectly expresses the aspirations of freedom weather”, its connection with advance practice of urbanism. LPA has and fun of and an entire generation. Ourthe proposal aims to rescue the informality offices in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid. of that beach without sacrificing the comfort of the pavers. 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.
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Credits Project Directors Juan Palop Casado Bonifacio Jiménez Miranda Design Team Nicolás Hernández García Alberto Lasso Hernández Ana Padilla Ríos Alejandro Pérez Carmona
More Info International Ideas Competition 3rd Prize Press PEx. Proyectos Experimentales. ULPGC. Las Palmas de G.C. (2009)
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