Proyects + Constructed Work

Tenerife Memory
+ ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AND ARICO OFFICES, TENERIFE +

Among other possible sites, we choose the one in which the main location features came together the artificial slopes of the old rubbish tip, the Teide´s majestic summit, the Atlantic view, and the Southern Freeway with the aim of making with all these elements a landscape reinterpretation wilfully at odds with physical organicism, but rigorously contextualist in relation to both, landscape and the environmental program.

We propose a non-scale construction of an extreme ambiguity, able to be watched at 120 km per hour as a billboard that reclaims a public dimension for its recycling activities (so important for the balance of the fragile island ecosystem), but also receiving any visitors who approach as a filter that blends with the sky, and that as it rises up from the ground integrates the ocean, the Teide and the breeze within the building, generating an open-air atrium in which a didactic tour begins directly on an exhibition and documenting of the place and its activity, in order to finish with a general visit to the installations. All the materials used are artificial and recyclable, working as a system that integrates itself in the expository system.

Tenerife Card
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AND ARICO OFFICES, TENERIFE. 1999-2001
Customer: Insular Goverment of Tenerife
Architects: Iñaki Ábalos, Juan Herreros
Collaborators: Ángel Jaramillo
Estructure: Obiol y Moya
Engineer: Francisco Hernández.
IPublic Works Technical Engineer: Luis Jesús Tomás Martinez
graphic Information: Jacob Hense
Financial Study: Miguel Ángel Rica
Work Direction: Abalos&Herreros, Virgilio Gutiérrez