Hotel Parque La Paz on the southern coast of Tenerife required a thorough refurbishment. A constellation of problems amounted to a clear need to update and renovate, and included accessibility, rooms that had not been redecorated since the opening in 1987, and common and office areas that had inherited a series of deficiencies.
Our approach to the reordering was inspired by the unique importance of access, not only as an attraction, but also from a sensory point of view. We eliminated two rooms on the ground floor in order to link the reception area with the exterior. The main entry was planned to stand under a textile awning that reaches onto the street to welcome guests. The arrival ritual takes place upon ascending a gentle ramp under the pleasant shade. The welcome is crowned by a roped pergola that sifts light and lets in air.
The plot is located in the coastal strip of the Tacoronte Municipality, in the neighbourhood of El Pris village, in a beautiful place called Puerto de La Madera. The plot has an area of one hectare, equivalent to 10,000 sqm, which was built with a three floors high, detached house.
It is requested to draft a project for a building destined for the Catholic worship, in the type of a chapel or an hermitage dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. The temple, according to the requirements of the property, allows a capacity of 40 people and requires a liturgical celebration to be held there weekly. Due to the current economic shortage, there is requested a building which will optimize the available limited resources.
The plot, steep, will be provided in the future of the host church and square. The commission consisted of building the Parish Hall as futureTemplesocket. So the building is constructed taking into account several aspects that define the proposal:
The situation of the plot, with frontage across Las Mercedes Road and back towards the rustic landscape, the temperature conditions and humidity of the area, all together, clearly defined our approach to the project. Furthermore, the promoters asked for a modest house but with personality, on a modest budget. Thus, a compact volume is raised, trying to minimize its perimeter and therefore heat loss from inside.
With this volcanic surroundings, the proposal settles in like another crater. The building looks into the courtyard, the heart of the crater, that is the meeting point, organizes the access and the connexions with the other buildings. In this courtyard there are some fissures that communicates the laboratories and research areas with the exterior. These small courtyards create a series of visual connectivities between all the spaces that looks over the outside creating a complex and interesting spatiality for the users of the building.
The house is located on the road to Tejina, in an area called Pozo Cabildo, with heavy traffic and close topographic references as (Mesa Mota) or further ones as (el Teide) as unique relevant points.
Architecture is a means to bring people to the natural environment. The Museum features a large plaza that characterizes the building. The development of this area was vital to connecting the building to the environment.
It arose from the idea to strengthen the relationship between the town and the natural landscape that exists around the museum. The plaza gives a public space to the town, it is a place where people can eat and enjoy the landscape which is particularly striking for the site lies next to a dry river bed known in as the “Bar- ranco del Infierno”.
This Centre of the Dramatic Arts presents itself to the city as a platform, as an urban stage with the city and landscape as backdrop.
The interior roofed patio, generated by a three-dimensional folding of the wooden surface of the roof, is conceived as a scenic box that opens up towards the city and affirms itself as the building’s spatial reference point, a place for relationships and interchange.
General View (Main Terrace) (Images Courtesy Efraín Pintos)
Architect:gpy arquitectos – Juan Antonio González Pérez, Urbano Yanes Tuña
Name of Project: Tenerife Centre of Dramatic Arts
Location: El Ramonal, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain
Collaboration: Félix Perera Pérez,Gustavo García Báez, Constanze Sixt, Architects
Structural Engineering: Martínez Segovia, Fernández, Pallas y Asociados
Photographs: Teresa Arozena, Miguel de Guzmán, Roland Halbe, Efraín Pintos, Joaquín Ponce de León
Sofwtare used: Mainly designed by hand; a small part by AutoCAD
Be a building or be a open square- garden. Be in an open outdoor space or be a enclosed space. Internalize the outside or reveal the inside. constant or discontinuous, domestic spaces or urban ones. A place where these contradictions and public-sphere concepts are incorporated. The proposal states the restoration of a XV century church, which is recorded as BIC, in order to create a mediatheque that dynamizes and stimulates San Cristóbal de La Laguna´s central core. The intervention establishes a programmatic floor and a luminous roof.
San Agustin Media Center
Architects:SIC Arquitectura – Esaú Acosta, Mauro Gil-Fournier, Miguel Jaenicke
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