Transformation of a boardwalk in Tenerife

Description of the project by Jiménez y Bazán Arquitectos S.L.P.

The project is set in the Agreement of Regeneration of Tourism Spaces of Tenerife Island (which management is chargeable to SPET, Turismo de Tenerife, S. A.), signed between the Insular Chapter of Tenerife, Adeje’s town hall, Arona, Puerto de la Cruz and Santiago del Teide and the Asociación Hotelera y Extra hotelera de la Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ASHOTEL), and the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife in order to improve the quality of the tourist zones of the island of Tenerife.

Unterhaching Street is a singular urban space of 9.104'40 sqm that supposes the pedestrian and vehicle access to one of the most relevant spaces for tourism of the Canary Isles since is the Playa del Duque in Adeje. Its tracing has a section that acts of maritime walk opened for the sea that ends in a great closed square in caused by the existence of a natural roque on the coast that acts as a great urban foyer before the Playa del Duque.

The existence of several public underground parking lots in the surroundings, included the existing one in use, are set under the urban space of the square, satisfy th parking needs and make clear the prejudice that causes the excess of cars in surface opposite to the lack of public urban space destined for the recreation of visitants as complement to the beach in the whole of hotel and residential area.

Therefore the principal aim of the project consists of the creation of an urban pedestrian space that obtains an improvement of the urban image under criteria of universal accessibility, creating a significant space of stay with the insertion of vegetation, elements of shade, movably and new lighting, beside improving the urban services and the drainage of rain water.

In the first section the pedestrian sidewalk extends towards the sea that goes from the Plaza del Duque Mall towards Duque Beach, allowing to incorporate green spaces into the boardwalk as well as to enjoy the sights towards the sea. This route maintains the space for traffic in both directions though it eliminates the parking lots beside the sea to incorporate a rail bicycle leaving of the side mountain the services of taxi, load and unload and containers of garbage.

The the parking surface that used to fill the space before Duque Beach is transformed into an urban singular space of pedestrian scattering that will suppose a reference on the coast of Adeje's Town. Some big pergolas join for the generation of shade and new circular window boxes that distribute the urban space creating zones of stay and zones of game are inserted in a fluid space and connected in a way that substantially improves the relation between beach, trade, city and landscape.