Landscape Project in Lago Verde
Lanzarote, Spain
We were asked to generate resting areas in a stunning landscape facing the sea, adding stops for visitors who can only get there by foot.
We didn’t want to introduce anything new, nothing that could distort the image of the place. We used the rope and its anchors, which protect walkers along the path.
Without letting go of the ropes that have accompanied us along the itinerary, we use them to interweave, like a spiderweb, those surfaces that will become resting spaces by the sea.
Nothing must destroy the magic of the place. We know that any construction inflicts wounds on the place. Here, availing of the characteristics of the sand – and how soon it goes back to its natural state after any manipulation –, we buried in it the anchors of the metallic supports of the ropes without needing any securing material other than the weight of the metal itself.
If at some point in the future the intervention is removed, everything will go back to the way it was.
Project data
Year
2006
Status
Project
Client
Private – Bienal de Arquitectura y Paisajismo de Canarias
Team
Main Architect: Carme Pinós
Architects: Holger Hennefarth
Curator: Ana María Tores
Structural Engineering: NB35 Barcelona