These brand-new street bio-corners will evolve from some of the existing street corners in Arrecife, standing out amid the arid landscape, and consisting of a big tree, a shaded area and seating. Street bio-corners are a contemporary version of the existing ones, adding new bio-functionalities, such as a local drainage system, clean energy, digital information, and biodiversity. Besides trees, gardens and places for people to meet up and relax, these spaces will include a sustainable drainage system for the harvesting, filtering and storage of rainwater, as in old times in Lanzarote, when water was a valued and scarce resource. Each street bio-corner works as a hydraulic infrastructure, in addition to being a public space, with a Wi-Fi connection and an off-grid energy system.
Our aim is that these corners will encourage people of different ages to come together, as well as making the city eco-friendly. The design consists of an assemblage of triangular modules and has multiple and varying usages, such as being a garden, a playground, a place to play chess with tables, an orchard, a butterfly garden, a location for barbeques, a platform for yoga, as well as having steps to sit on. There is a plan to develop about forty street bio-corners around the city, all of them in collaboration with people living in nearby neighbourhoods.
Street Bio-corner
Project
Diagnóstico y Estrategia para el Desarrollo del Proyecto UrbanÃstico Arrecife, Capital de la Reserva de la Biosfera
Location
Arrecife (Lanzarote)
Year
2019
Client
Cabildo de Lanzarote
Status
Concept Design
Size
850 m2 (Area); 150 m2 (Built area)
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Prizes
Finalist. Architizer +A Products, Landscape Architecture Category. 2020. Â Winner. CONAMA, Sostenibility Category. 2020. Â Winner. IFLA, Architecture Category. 2021.
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A street bio-corner which adds new bio-functionalities to the existing ones, through the provision of a sustainable drainage system and an off-grid performance.
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