Parques Asocados. Green Infrastructure Plan

An arid and particularly windy climate characterises the municipality of Ingenio. Furthermore, this area in the southeast of the island of Gran Canaria is represented by one of the highest radiation levels in the already sunny Canary archipelago. The municipality’s population is fragmented and linearly distributed in three urban centres framed to the north and south by two ravines.

The Parques Asocados are three open spaces, protected from the trade winds, which occupy the banks of the Ingenio and Guayadeque ravines as they pass through the town centres of Ingenio, El Carrizal and El Burrero.

These parks are green infrastructures that combine natural purification functions, sustainable rainwater drainage, urban vegetable gardens and biodiversity reserves. They are also social infrastructures providing recreational spaces and community activities that will serve as a refuge for local residents on hot days. The parks are linked by two landscaped pedestrian and cycle paths that form a green corridor connecting the interior of the municipality with the coast and vice versa. The Associated Parks are complemented by “green fingers” colonising the main streets.

 

 

 

Calvia Coastal & Tourist Development

The municipality of Calvia is situated on the southwest end of the island of Mallorca.

It has nearly 60 kilometres of coastline and it concentrates more than 50,000 tourist beds and as many second homes which totals for more than 50% of the tourist accommodation on the Island. The proposal is based on the geographic system of “cavities” and “convexities” that characterizes Calvia’s coast. The design strategy aims to recover and update the development pattern of the irst tourist settlements where the “cavities” of the coast hosted tourist enclaves while the “convexities” were maintained as landscape reservoirs. This pattern is the basis of the vivid image that characterizes the Majorcan coast, and an example of intelligent and sustainable development of the waterfront. The project also includes a model of sustainable mobility and eight tourist enclaves, each with its own unique identity and tourist proile.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Waterfront

The project addresses nearly 40 kilometres of coastline, including east and west sides of the city. It also includes a sustainable mobility system as an alternative to the existing one. The solution incorporates two systems: one functional (heavy traic) and another more oriented to leisure-wise enjoyment (light and public traic). Functional mobility incorporates the existing by-pass and the major existing roads of the city. Leisure-wise mobility favours light and alternative traic, including bicycles, trams and pedestrians.

Ten well-equipped parks are placed along the waterfront, as a result of the crossing of urban and natural corridors. Each park seamlessly combines urban programs and facilities, transport hubs and open spaces. By exploiting the urban possibilities of outdoor living and mass enjoyment of the coast, the project aims to condense and deploy the subtropical potential of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.