Regeneration project for Playa de Palma

Playa de Palma is located on the eastern coast of the city of Palma, at the boundary with the municipality of Llucmajor. It includes the urban planning areas of Can Pastilla, Ses Fontanelles, La Ribera, Les Meravelles, and s'Arenal. The study area is organized longitudinally starting from Palma beach and the promenade, while transversely the Sant Jordi ditch drains the Pla de Sant Jordi and the Torrent des Jueus borders the municipality of Llucmajor.

Playa de Palma is considered a mature tourist destination in need of a modernization process, aware of the current context of climate crisis and biodiversity loss.

It is in this context that its regeneration is proposed, since the coastal area has developed a tourism model of environmental and landscape depredation. That is to say, without taking into account its physical suitability, potential for use, and natural resources.
This Master Plan and Preliminary Project is the first phase of an entire process of modernization and adaptation to tourist circularity and climate change adaptation for the destination. The aim is to have a project with concrete proposals for the intervention in the reurbanization of streets and urban parks, integrating nature-based solutions and sustainable urban drainage systems, which will serve as a basis for actions to execute renaturalization projects that encompass all aspects of tourist circularity in destinations: energy, mobility, water, materials, territory, and the waste generated. That is to say, the aim is to have a project with concrete proposals that allow for the regeneration and renaturalization of certain designated streets and public spaces, while also serving as a guide for the comprehensive regeneration of Playa de Palma.

The proposal defines at a conceptual level the set of green/blue/grey infrastructure (with proposals for nature-based solutions, sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS); revegetation at different levels depending on their position as frontline or rear; soil permeability, etc.), and at a construction level with the indication of material solutions and construction details that address the entire described areas, emphasizing strategic points; intersections between different types of roads/free space/rural land boundaries or according to axis hierarchy, considering the coexistence of the existing green infrastructure, CAZ, and the behavior of the dune and beach maritime system, as well as areas vulnerable to aquifer contamination in the Pla de Sant Jordi.