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INDEX PRESENTATION Project VISION & PRINCIPLES Concurso de Ideas para la Ordenación FIELDS OF Integral delWORK Litoral de Las Palmas de Gran FIRM Canaria STRUCTURE DIVISIONS & SERVICES Location DIRECTORS Gran Canaria, Spain SECTORS & PRODUCTS Year RESEARCH 2009 TEAM Client OFFICE Las Palmas Municipality CAREERS Status COMMITMENT TO QUALITY Competition PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS Size CLIENTS 40 km PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS Scope of Work Urban Planning Urban Design Landscape Architecture Mobility Infrastructures Services Master Planning Infrastructure Design Landscape Design 1st Prize in International Ideas Competition
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INTRODUCTION LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA WATERFRONT
About us An ecological approach that interprets ravines as components of the waterfront system. 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 project addresses nearly 40 kilometres of coastline, including east and west the principles of ecological and sustainable development to the singularities sides of the city. It also includes a sustainable mobility system as an alternative to of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions the existing one. The solution incorporates two systems: one functional (heavy (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places traffic) and another more oriented to leisure-wise enjoyment (light and public traand spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and ffic). Functional mobility incorporates the existing by-pass and the major existing planning of LPA. roads of the city. Leisure-wise mobility favours light and alternative traffic, including LPA wastrams founded 2002, in Las Ten Palmas de Gran Canaria Islands), city bicycles, andinpedestrians. well-equipped parks (Canary are placed alongathe known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory for waterfront, as a result of the crossing of urban and natural corridors. Each park testing the environmental and spatial potential of the geographies with “good seamlessly combines urban programs and facilities, transport hubs and open spaweather”, and itsthe connection with the of advance of mass urbanism. LPA has ces. By exploiting urban possibilities outdoorpractice living and enjoyment of offices in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid. the coast, the project aims to condense and deploy the subtropical potential of Las Palmas de Gransystem Canaria.of LPA is framed in the intersection of two ongoing revoThe operative lutions: 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 Fernando Portillo de Armenteras Design Team Laura Rodríguez Cardona (Team Leader) Ignacio López Busón Rubén Ginorio García Eva Padrón Sánchez Bentejuí Hernández Acosta Alberto Martín gonzález Sergio Alexis Ramírez Castro Javier González Rivero Jorge Ros Díaz Mª Dolores Martín Díaz Jonathan Tabares Sicilia Jorge Sainz de Aja Curbelo María Martínez de Aguirre Calvo
Collaborators Mobility Antonio Garcia Pastor Urban Infrastructures Jorge Calle Environment Claudio Pérez Model LPA + Rotuplus Graphic Design Kubo Publicidad Images José Bueno
More Info International Ideas Competition 1st prize (Ex aequo)
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