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INTRODUCTION About us

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 principles of ecological and sustainable development to the singularities of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places and spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and planning of LPA.

LPA was founded in 2002, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), a city known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory for 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 revo-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 po-tential of digital tools—as a processing tool—, LPA has developed its own work-ing 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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ProjectPlan Urbanistico para el Desarrollo Turis-tico del Municipio de Yaiza

LocationLanzarote, Spain

Year2006

ClientYaiza Municipality

StatusMasterplan

Size180 Ha

Scope of WorkUrban DevelopmentUrban PlanningMobility Infrastructures

ServicesLand-Use PlanMaster Planning

Playa Blanca is located at the south end of the island of Lanzarote and housesabout 10,000 tourist beds. Its lack of urban structure is the result of a disjointed development of eight isolated pieces of land. The result is a suburban model, exclusionary, repetitive, inefficient, and lacking in spatial quality. The intervention strategy consists of implementing a new structure based in a new mobility system of two rings: one “functional” and the other “recreational”. A new layout of parks is added by the natural reconstitution of the existing valleys that runs transversal to the coast. A series of open spaces complete the new structure which organizes the urban uses according to the relative position of them within the new urban system.

Two mobility circuits articulate the whole urban plan and give newpossibilities for a coherent development

PLAYA BLANCA TOURIST CITY

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Credits (LPA + UNStudio)Project DirectorsJuan Palop Casado Ben Van Berkel Astrid Piber

Design TeamJavier Auré (Team Leader)Javier BenitoAlicia Velázquez (UNStudio)

More InfoPartnershipUNStudio, Amsterdam

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