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INDEX PRESENTATION Project VISION & PRINCIPLES Guías sobre la Movilidad Operativa de la FIELDS OF WORK Zona Turística del sur FIRM STRUCTURE Location DIVISIONS & SERVICES Gran Canaria, Spain DIRECTORS Year SECTORS & PRODUCTS 2011 RESEARCH Client TEAM Consorcio para la Rehabilitación Turística OFFICE del Sur de Gran Canaria CAREERS Status COMMITMENT TO QUALITY Concept Design PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS Size CLIENTS 300 Ha PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS Scope of work Urban Development Mobility Infrastructures Services Feasibility Studies Infrastructure Design
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INTRODUCTION PLAYA DEL INGLÉS STREET DESIGN GUIDELINES
About us Two main circulation routes (funtional + tourist) articulate the whole area 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 Playa del Ingles is one of the main tourist areas of the Canary Islands. With the principles of ecological and sustainable development to the singularities more than forty years of history, the current urban layout demands an of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions urgent renovation and the implementation of sustainable and environmental (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places strategies. The structure of the mobility system and the design of the public and spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and spaces and infrastructures are the main components of the project brief. The planning of LPA. solution proposes two main circulation routes; one devoted to functional LPA was in 2002, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary traffic andfounded the other more in oriented to tourist mobility. A cluster ofIslands), linear a city known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory for boulevards running from the interior to the beaches complete the new testing the environmental and spatial potential of the geographies with “good structure of the mobility system and catalogues the different types of streets. weather”, the advance practice of urbanism. LPA has The secondand partits ofconnection the project with includes the design of a select group of streets offices in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid. which character and section is defined according to their relative position in the urban system structure. Thenew operative 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 Project Directors Juan Palop-Casado Fernando Portillo de Armenteras Design Team Ignacio López Busón (Team Leader) Diego Pacheco González Bentejuí Hernández Acost
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