The Ifara-Central District, headed by the first deputy mayor of Santa Cruz and Town Planning Councilor, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, has approved putting out to tender the project to shade Calle Castillo de Santa Cruz. In this way, the bidding process will proceed first phase of this initiative, whose cost is set at 80,000 euros, and which will be developed in two of the seven sectors initially proposed by the architect responsible for the design. Specifically, the first shadows will be placed in the sections between San Lucas and Suárez Guerra streets, and between Teobaldo Power and Valentín Sanz.
The tender is still underway in the absence of the Cabildo de Tenerife ruling on the adequacy of the project, given that the scope of application is within the Historic Complex of Old Santa Cruz, which holds the category of BIC, and which does not yet have with its own ordinance, for which the insular Corporation is competent in matters of historical heritage.
With this start of the file, which will involve the preparation of the specifications and subsequent bidding, it is possible to advance administratively until the response from the insular area of Historical Heritage arrives. Thus, according to the District, the company that is awarded this project, the winner among those submitted to the participatory budgets, will be a direct interlocutor of the Cabildo when evaluating possible adaptations, if the Cabildo requires them, in the execution of this intervention.
As can be read in the decision to start the bidding procedure, the start of the administrative file for the bidding for the management and execution of the work that allows the creation of an open shopping center on Castillo street through the installation of candles is approved. of shade anchored to the facades of the buildings, in order to carry out the proposal approved in the participatory budgets.
The project in question, called Panza de burro, consists of the partial, reversible covering of the street, by means of a mesh based on triangular modules and tensioned by a structure of cables that will be supported by anchors to the existing façades and by intermediate metal posts of new contribution. The main purpose of the execution is to provide shade and protect pedestrians from high temperatures.
The architect Alejandro Beautell has been in charge of the design that now has to be executed. As reported by DIARIO DE AVISOS last Decemberthe decision to name the intervention Panza de burro, and in the words of the architect himself, is due to the fact that “it is something that has to do with our popular culture and with the freshness that we wanted to give to the proposal”.
“The designed covering, like the donkey’s belly, will protect us from the sun in the hottest months and, like the meteorological phenomenon, will disappear later, since it will be a reversible installation temporarily limited to the summer period.”
For the development of this project for Castillo de Santa Cruz street, its author made a detailed study of Castillo street and its surroundings, making an elevation of the road plan to be able to develop the proposal in the best possible way, proposing seven areas where to place the shadow, and it will eventually start at two.
Materials
The triangular canvases that will cover the different spaces will form a tensioned mesh structure. The material chosen for its conformation will be micro-perforated and fire-retardant PVC that will allow correct ventilation and illumination of the shaded areas. The height and design of the awnings have been defined based on the existence of vegetation, listed buildings, and under criteria of commercial interest.
The implementation of this initiative has an initial cost of 80,000 euros and aims to make shopping, at least in the hottest periods, more comfortable. According to the proponent of this idea in the participatory budgets of Santa Cruz, “apart from benefiting businesses, with this system the temperature is lowered by up to four degrees, by creating shade, and the annoying glare of summer in the afternoon would be eliminated. , which is when more people go out to buy”.
