Improved model for the Plaza in Los Cristianos. Jorge Mosquera and CPPA, 2008
In 1998 the Cabildo of Tenerife we commissioned a work for landscape improvement meant a very tourist core of the Americas in the south of the island.
We started there park project, the so-called Central Park, we would complete almost 6 years old. Experience then begin to define an element of street furniture which we later used in other works. We christened the bank was a piece Arona and to give visitors seat, very simple and developed with the help of local artisans, carpenters and locksmiths.
Arona bank is a sheet metal brackets, that give structure to a body of seat and back treated wood that can support the effect of solar radiation. Its cost is very low and has the virtue of employing labor and local resources and consider it a worthy design with low costs.
Model primitive. Central Park of Arona. Federico García and Jorge Mosquera, 2004
Facing the international furniture pieces that we intend to sell to powerful marketing campaigns, very valid alternative is to promote the design itself and the participation of local small businesses in all that is possible. In this case, cost savings was very high compared to other proposals from abroad, costing a tenth of the alternatives.
This not only produces a considerable saving, it also stimulates the growth of productive structures next, local employment own labor and cheaper. It was not easy to convince our client, because the interest and influence of professional vendors such material had made a strange support of politicians and bureaucrats.
The strength of the economy and the local commitment were arguments overcame the reluctance of those who had illegitimate interests against rationality. Although not always possible.
Please ” BANK Arona 2.0 “
…I love design !! and strongly agree with you…much,loooong rationalism…..Hugs
Both the design and the production approach are very well. If the wood comes up with a stamp in FSC, Round is good example of environmental criteria.