100 VERSIÓ 2.0
Studies to examine the viability of dividing a Family House into five apartments with common spaces and services.
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The main goal of the research and proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of the project to ensure a new long life to the owners.
Chandigarn
workshop
URBAN PROPOSAL FOR THE CITY- PORT INTERFACE
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The Barcelona City-Port interface is under continue transformation. The limit between the urban port and the industrial logistic area is under movement and is being continually displaced south, opposite to urban positions, in search for areas where to minimize conflict between urban and port activities. At the same time, physically constrained the city of Barcelona is in search for space to provide houses to new comers.
This proposal link port and urban interest through the creation of a continue slab that facilities logistic activities under while permits urban activities above, provide space to enlarge today’s straitjacketed transport infrastructures and solve the link between the city and the bigger park in town, Montjuïc.
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1000 Versió 2.0
BARCELONA: SMART SALTY SPICY
Location: Riudecanyes
Surface: 7500 m2
Year: 2015
Collaborators: Sònia Lamesa,
Teresa Milián & Carla Lladó
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Location: Port of Barcelona, Spain
Year: 2011
Architects: Carlota Casanova, Daniel Lorenzo
Mamen Domingo, Ernest Ferrè,
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A TREE AND A SHELTER
Location: Unitat Predepartamental d’Arquitectura,
ETSA Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Year: 2014
Professors: J. M. Toldrà; J. Farreny; D. Lorenzo; F. Cifuentes; R. Miralles
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BARRANCO DE LERMES
A model for urban regeneration in the Canary Islands
In 2024, LoCa Studio collaborated with Santiago del Teide's
Urban Department to enhance urban conditions in the coastal area of southern Tenerife, a key tourism hub.
The project focused on sustainable development for Los Gigantes and the Barranco de Lermes ravine, addressing traffic, pedestrian connectivity, and water management.
Proposed strategies include renaturalizing the ravine and improving mobility and energy use, aiming to create a natural corridor linking the ocean to Los Gigantes.
The study serves as a model for urban regeneration
in the Canary Islands.
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Technical coordination: Roser Roca
Proposal Design manager: Gador Luque
Design team: Marianna Goula, Siria Peirolo
Location: Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands
Floor Area: 664.934 m² - 66ha
Year: 2023-2024
Collaborators (external): Manuel Losada (water management),
Jean-Marc Mirailles (Mobility consultant), Alba Villacampa (landscape), Adriana Rodriguez (Biologist consultant),
Javier Freire (energy management consultant)
Sustainable Urban Strategies for Coastal Renewal in Santiago del Teide
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In 2024, LoCa Studio developed an analysis, diagnosis, and set of strategic proposals in collaboration with the Urban Department of Santiago del Teide (Ayuntamiento de la Villa Histórica de Santiago del Teide) to improve the urban conditions of the town's tourist coastal core.
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Santiago del Teide is a small municipality located south of Tenerife, the largest island in the Canary Islands archipelago. Historically, Tenerife and Gran Canaria have hosted the majority of the region's infrastructure and urban development. As tourism began to flourish, these islands became key recipients of tourism initiatives.
Today, despite their small size, the Canary Islands are the region hosting the most tourists in Europe. According to Eurostat, in 2023, the combined number of nights spent at tourist accommodations in Tenerife and Gran Canaria reached 60.3 million, matching the Balearic Islands.
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More than fifty years after the initial wave of tourism development in the islands, an extensive short-term development model, which has demonstrated little attention to environmental and landscape particularities, has started to be under question.
Excessive territorial stress and unsustainable environmental impact, the social discontent associated with economic inequalities, and the opportunity that represents European funds for the next generations are promoting a progressive change. Other models are possible. A wider sustainable territorial and socio-economic criteria are necessary. Under this study, we have had the opportunity to explore new solutions for tourism development, we consider not only of interest for Santiago or the islands but for many other similar coastal tourist developments that require the redesign of out-of-date strategies.
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In Santiago del Teide, known for its impressive views of Los Gigantes, the Barranco de Lermes ravine is identified as central to fostering progressive transformation in an area primarily driven by tourism.
Los Gigantes, one of the island's first tourist developments, began urbanization in the 1960s, supported by the area's natural landscape. Today, more than 50 years later, the region requires renewal and adaptation to meet current demands.
LoCa Studio has conducted a study of the area to analyze and diagnose issues related to green spaces, connectivity, and urban mobility, intending to create improvement strategies.
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The Barranco de Lermes has been identified as a key element in mobilizing this transformation. This currently neglected area has two significant advantages: it is centrally located and is the last nonurbanized public space.
A multipurpose analysis was conducted to better understand the specific challenges and opportunities in this area.
Key issues identified include chaotic mobility reliant on private motor vehicles, a dead-end street structure, lack of pedestrian connectivity among main tourist attractions, poor urbanization quality with insufficient shaded areas, inadequate water management, and missed opportunities for utilizing natural resources and landscape features.
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The diagnosis led to the development of a series of strategies promoting: pedestrian mobility (including new pedestrian corridors, prioritizing mobility modes, enhancing public transportation, introducing alternative collective mobility systems, designing parking areas connected to multimodal transport systems, improving coastal accessibility, and creating continuous routes linking key public facilities and attractions, as well as increasing shaded areas), the renaturalization of the ravine (restoring natural landscape values, enhancing endemic flora, and expanding swimming areas), better water management (integrating sewage management, water reuse, and rainwater harvesting), and more sustainable energy solutions.
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This wide ambitious enterprise foresees the recovery and enhancement of the Lermes ravine to become a natural and mobility corridor from the Atlantic Sea to the Gigantes Clifts. To make it real, it is urgent and necessary to build commitment to the mobility change.
The discussion has to be amplified and results integrated into an urban vision for the Gigantes too.
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This study represents an important lesson for other coastal touristic areas that require updating and urban regeneration on how to identify potentialities and values as drivers of change.
The similarities with other tourist environments along the Spanish coast are numerous, making the analysis, diagnosis, and proposals developed for Santiago del Teide valuable for similar developments, particularly those in the Canary Islands. ​​​​​​​