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INDEX PRESENTATION Project VISION & PRINCIPLES Estudio de Viabilidad para el FIELDS OF WORK Intercambiador de San Isidro FIRM STRUCTURE Location DIVISIONS & SERVICES Tenerife, Spain DIRECTORS Year SECTORS & PRODUCTS 2011 RESEARCH Client TEAM Granadilla de Abona Municipality OFFICE Status CAREERS Concept DesignTO QUALITY COMMITMENT
PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS Size 3.000 m² CLIENTS PUBLICATIONS Scope of work & EXHIBITIONS Urban Design Landscape Architecture Mobility Infrastructures Services Infrastructure Design Landscape Design
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INTRODUCTION SAN ISIDRO BUS STATION
About us Sails and shadows that bring urban life and comfort into a bus station 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 necessity of a bus station was one of the conclusions of a Sustainable the principles of ecological and sustainable development to the singularities Mobility Plan developed by the municipality of San Miguel on the island of of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions Tenerife; however, the site chosen for the bus station offered a very good (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places location in terms of accessibility but lacked urban quality. The project consists and spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and of the design of an exchange station that integrates multiple urban “uses” planning of LPA. and “users”. The design strategy consists of developing a public square that LPA was founded in 2002, Lasplatforms, Palmas deother Gran programs Canaria (Canary Islands), incorporates, alongside theinbus such as kiosks, a city known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory grandstands, playgrounds and landscaping. The main purpose of this is to for testing the environmental and spatial potential of the withwith “good allow children, elderly people and urban pedestrians to geographies share this space weather”, and its connection with the advance practice of urbanism. LPA has commuters. The design also includes the use of a textile canopy—inspired by offices in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid. the kite surfing sails that proliferate in beaches nearby—that stretches across the providing comfort, visibility urban identity for area. Thespace, operative system of LPA is framedand in the intersection of the twowhole 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 Fernando Portillo de Armenteras Design Phase Ignacio López Busón (Team Leader) Leah Cabrera Fischer Diego Sáenz Penagos Elisa Chu González
Collaborators Mobility Consultan Steer Davis Gleave (SDG) Madrid-London Renders Gad López Álvarez
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