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Tenerife Centre of Dramatic Arts

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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This Centre of 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 interrelation and exchange.

Defined as an inclined surface, the patio functions at the same time as an open-air auditorium and as the backbone for the pedestrian routes throughout the building, comprising a system of ramps that relate the different scenic spaces of the building via an oblique zigzag geometry.

The whole building can be transformed into a space for performances, a public, open theatre, with the audience watching from the ramps, the platforms, the landings, transformed into both actors and spectators at the same time. Action determines the space of representation.

Project

Tenerife Centre of Dramatic Arts

Situation

C/ Pedro Suárez Hernández s/n. El Ramonal. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Canary Islands. Spain

Architects

GPY Arquitectos

Project Team

Juan Antonio González Pérez, Félix Francisco Perera Pérez, Urbano Yanes Tuña, Gustavo García Báez, Constanze Sixt

Technical Team

Luis Darias Martín (Asat S.L.)

Structural Engineers

Martínez Segovia, Fernández, Pallas y Asociados

Civil Engineers

Gpi Ingenieros

Audio-visual Project

EAV Estudio Audiovisual

Technical Drawings

Miriam Hernández Pérez

Client

Canary Islands Regional Government: Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports | Tenerife Island Council

Contract

Necso Entrecanales Cubiertas, S.A.

Constructed Surface

3,360 m2

Models

José Luis González Doña, Laura Pérez Rodríguez

Photographs

Teresa Arozena, Miguel de Guzmán, Roland Halbe, Efraín Pintos, Joaquín Ponce de León

Awards

Mi Obra Favorita Award. CSCAE, 2009: First Prize | Premio de Arquitectura de Canarias Manuel de Oráa y Arcocha, XIth Edition, 2004: First Prize | Bienal Miami+Beach, 2003: Bronze Medal.

Publications

Books: Manuela Roth: Concrete Architecture & Design. Braun Publishing, 2012 The Sky’s the Limit. Applying Radical Architecture. Berlin: Gestalten, 2012 Materials in Architecture. Guangzhou: Sandu, 2012 Lan, Bruce Q. (ed.): Arch Manual. Design+Concept+Script+Process. Beijing: AADCU, 2010 Van Uffelen, Chris: Masterpieces. Performance Architecture. Braun Publishing AG, 2010 Kramer, Sibylle: Schools- Educational Spaces. Braun Publishing AG, 2009 The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. London: Phaidon Press, 2008 Meyhöfer, Dirk: Touch Wood. The rediscovery of a building material. Köln/Berlin: Verlagshaus Braun, 2008 Ruiz Cabrero, Gabriel: Guía de Arquitectura Contemporánea / Contemporary Architecture Guide 1962-2006. Tenerife. Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, 2008 10x10_2. 100 Architects 10 Critics. London / New York: Phaidon, 2005 Magazines: XXI n.108 (2012), arquitectos n.169 (2004), Arquitectura Viva n. 100 (2005), Basa n. 28 (2005), Case da Abitare n.48 (2912), Diseñart n.02 (2005), De Arhitectura n.41 (2015), Icon n.033 (2006), Memar n.75 (2012), Pasajes n. 63 (2004), The Big Issue n.22 (2012), Wallpaper (March 2009)

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