Tourist Atlas on Spanish Costa del Sol: planning, landscape and architecture in the tourist metropolis, reflections for intervention

Rosa Jiménez. Ph Architect N ogueira Bernárdez. Architect n Camino Martínez. Architect o u r reaserch group a ltour.uma.es l f A hit t Tourist Atlas on Spanish “Costa del Sol” Landscape, planning and architecture at the tourist metropolis reflections for intervention Research project funded by Innovation and Science Department of Andalusia Government (2009-10) Directed by Ricard Pié Ninot (Polythecnic University of Catalonia) Carlos Rosa Jiménez (Málaga University) The full research project consists of three atlas: oAtlas of Spanish “Costa del Sol”. o Atlas of Mediterranean sun and beach coasts Why the Spanish Costa del Sol? •One of the most important paradigms of sun-and- beach aged tourism in the world •Intense and violent changes in recent years, with clear sings of exhaustion and obsolescence •Specifically contemporary region (1950-2010) with complex & dynamic nature • Urban & tourist laboratory oTraditional tools of analysis and planning can not explain and express this complexity oThe contemporary mapping (or Mapping) provides new mechanisms & analysis abilities to express complex and systemic realities oMapping lets to articulate the different dimensions and pieces that make up the puzzle of touristic area Why an Atlas? oNew Babylon as Nomadic City is the beginning of a new concept of city, mobility and society: “the opposite of utilitarian society is ludic society (…) but it is clear that a ludic society can only be a classeless society”. oNew Babylon is the idea of total globalization: the elimination of borders in economy, maximum accessibility, the global village… …where the concept of live is an endless journey around de world Costa del Sol as New Babylon In this new world, the homo ludens develops all its creativity within a society of consumer and spectacle, and the mass-tourism is only a natural manifestation. There are three important aspects: oThe “event” and the theory and practical activity of “constructing and creating situations” oThe playful-city in opposition to utilitarian city Why mapping? T he term mapping refers to mapping contemporary action oTraditionally, maps have been made by cartographers, geographers looking for objectivity and scientific rigor. oMapping is a proactive form of knowledge which is opened to global community because anyone can do mapping (GIS, Google Earth…) s t mappings s t tourist mapping is the “travel guide”. h ography books are maps of events: u ments, great landscapes, good a urants, cultural festivities… oThe Costa del Sol is a non-functional city. It is colonized by the second residence, and its principal morphological pattern is the low-density with private pool L andscape> Explosion of coastal landscape oThe continuous growth has transformed the initial conception of sun-and-beach into sun-and-water tourism L andscape> Explosion of coastal landscape AL>tour Research group on Architecture, Landscape & Tourism >> tourbanism > 6th Conference of International Forum on Urbanis oA new residential habitat has colonized the territory. Currently, there are more miles of border-pool than coastline beach L andscape> Explosion of coastal landscape AL>tour Research group on Architecture, Landscape & Tourism >> tourbanism > 6th Conference of International Forum on Urbanis oThis recreational city is half natural structure and half land use, L andscape> Paid-paradises L andscape> Paid-paradises The hosted system is one of the key issues in the construction of tourist environments. The combination of permanent residence and temporary stay weaves a complex web of residential components U rbanism & architecture>hotel tourism AL>tour Research group on Architecture, Landscape & Tourism >> tourbanism > 6th Conference of International Forum on Urbanism U rbanism & architecture>stop-territory oThis term expresses the level of difficult access to the beach from main roads A treatment of this information will allow the development of conceptual maps of spatial interaction, And extraction of trend lines that anticipate the emergence of new modes and residential mobility, ocial> hybridit y ocial> gated communities Islands of enclosed communities without social relationship with local or other communities