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INDEX PRESENTATION Project VISION & PRINCIPLES Accesibilidad Comercial a la Avenida de FIELDS OF WORK Canarias “Zona Comercial Cielo Abierto” FIRM STRUCTURE Location DIVISIONS & SERVICES Gran Canaria, Spain DIRECTORS Year SECTORS & PRODUCTS 2009 RESEARCH Client TEAM Santa Lucía Municipality OFFICE Status CAREERS Built COMMITMENT TO QUALITY
PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS Size 4 units CLIENTS PUBLICATIONS Scope of work & EXHIBITIONS Product Design Services Urban Furniture Execution Documentation Construction Management Site Supervision Digital Fabrication
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INTRODUCTION DIGITAL TOTEM ®
About us An upgrade of a traditional totem by improving its visibility and displaying parameters 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 design upgrades the traditional advertising poles proliferating in malls the principles of ecological and sustainable development to the singularities and gas stations that are mainly used for advertising and business visibility. of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions The design strategy seeks to enhance its functionality by improving its visual (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places access. The design system consists of rotating eight blocks of a prism in and spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and accordance with the movement of vehicles around the roundabouts where planning of LPA. they are placed. Each module includes a video screen similar to those in LPA wasstadiums founded and in 2002, in Laspanels Palmasgive de Gran Canariaregarding (Canary Islands), a city football the video information access to known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory for car parks, availability of parking spaces and commercial ads. testing the environmental and spatial potential of the geographies with “good weather”, and its connection with the advance practice of urbanism. LPA has offices in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid. 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 Fernando Portillo de Armenteras Design Team Laura Rodríguez Cardona (Team Leader), Eleazar Acosta Construction Team Laura Rodríguez Cardona (Team Leader) Abián Monzón Jonathan Tabares Maria de los Dolores Martín Jorge Ros Asier Arenaza
Collaborators Construction Advisor Diseño Actual Barcelona (DAB)
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