Concept project · Garafía, La PalmaAstronomy
Next to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory: science and astrotourism under the best sky in Europe.
Concept project · Garafía, La Palma
Rural Innovation Hub
The most isolated corner of La Palma, reimagined as an innovation hub under the cleanest sky in Europe. No overcrowding. Paid for by those who come, not by the locals.
Concept: TAGALGEN · scroll
01 · The challenge
Far from everything, for real.
Garafía is the far north of La Palma: fourteen villages scattered across ravines and cliffs, linked by a single winding road. Here, every doctor's appointment, every errand and every shopping trip begins with a journey.
The problem isn't the distance. It's having to choose between living here and living a normal life.
02 · The vision
Not bringing in people. Bringing in what was missing.
TAGALGEN takes its name from the aboriginal canton that almost matched today's municipality. It promises no more tourism and no skyscrapers: it proposes bringing services, jobs and connectivity to the village without overcrowding it.
The key: those who come to create and to research pay for what the locals should never have to. Like the Roque Observatory, which brought a road and science without charging anyone for it.
03 · The proposal
Four Roques and one village.
Four hubs of activity tucked into the landscape, and one new village that ties them into the life of the community. Without touching any of the fourteen.
The land
La Palma cheese, Tea Wine and livestock, with a University of La Laguna campus that gives them value and a future.
Companies and talent
Headquarters, startups and digital nomads who want what there's plenty of here: calm, sky and fibre.
Nature
Low-impact trails and laurel forest, protected by the Sky Law. Quality, not quantity.
El Quince · 14+1
One new village. Not one fewer of the fourteen.
Garafía has fourteen villages and not one is touched. A small, residential one is added, on land already zoned for building, for those who come to work in the Roques and for the children of Garafía who want to come home.
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04 · The flight
From grey to the Milky Way.
1 · Far from everything
2 · The turning point
3 · The magnet
4 · The network
5 · Everything arrives
6 · Life returns
7 · No overcrowding
8 · Starlight night05 · The spot
The same story, in film form.
62 seconds · visuals and sound created with AI
06 · The pitch
The project, slide by slide.
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