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    Casa MM

    MM HOUSE Awards: 1999 FAD Award “Casa MM” 1998 1st Prize Manuel Oráa Award for “Casa MM” Description: On one hand, the staircase hangs up from the roof by tubes and metal sheet, retrieved from dismantled oil tanks, to which metal made steps are soldered, and covered with concrete using the remains of short steel…

  • Torre Agora Garden Luxury Condominium

    Architects: Fernando Menis Location: Taipei, Taiwan Use: Residential – luxury condos Structure: Reinforced Concrete Materials: Concrete, bronze Status: Project 2010 (restringed tender) Client: Private (confidential) Total built area: 49.422m2 This housing project is conceived as a fusion between the nature in the vicinity of the land and the primitive rocks emerging from the ground. As…

  • Casa Aurum

    Architects: Fernando Martin Menis Location: Ao-Di Land, Taiwan. Use: Residential. Structure: Reinforced concrete Materials: Concrete walls, steel, tiles, wood. Status: Project 2008 Client: De-Nian Development (Next-GEN20 Project) Collaborator: Kyle C. Yang Total building area: 54.208 ft2 Building cost: $7.291.357,75 USD Aurum House is part of an initiative on the part of the promoter De-Nian Development…

  • Edificio Aliseo

    Each project is an investigation, a search for new ideas that obey to a rational development in order to become reality, until reaching a convincing rational expressiveness that defines each project. For the design of Muvisa’s public housing building “Alisio” the trade winds, (alisios) which constantly whip the area of the Project, were taken into…

  • Viviendas “Edificio Laurel”

    A housing building for writers, journalists and culture businessmen in the center of the capital of Tenerife Island. The dimensions of the plot and the characteristics of the area have determined a building of unitary character that responds to the dialogue with the Laureles de Indias square, located in front of it.. Big fragments covered…

  • Vivienda Moscardó

    Located in a high society residential area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, next to the prestigious Mencey Hotel follows the principles of the organic and natural architecture of Menis, which integrate into one unit (house) the environmental factors of the place, use and functionality, native materials, the location, the construction process, respect for the existing…

  • Viviendas “Comunidad Cion”

    The private housing building has 3 floors. A little light yard glazed with tempered glass naturally illuminates and ventilates the interior rooms. The only facade facing the street is solved in a Mediterranean architectural way with mobile concrete panels and phenolic coloured wooden slats with different colors, all versatile and sustainable features. The materials used…

  • Casas “Comunidad Bouza”

    Manuel Oraa de Arquitectura Award The project consists of ten centrally located housing units in a 5 floors building. All housing units face the front façade. The facades are levelled with the adjacent medians and apart from each other by a vertical vacuum that allow natural ventilation in the communications core. Of these fissures arise…

  • 60 Viviendas de protección oficial Visocan

    A Canary Government building of 60 flats and semi-subterranean garages built very close to the motorway on a site with a considerable gradient. In order to fully exploit the topography, a building on different levels was constructed, using steps as a means of division into two blocks. The garages follow similar lines and contain low…

  • 50 Viviendas Puerta del Sur

    Regarding the building’s concept of distribution each unit gets its own humid core, which organizes the spaces. The space to be inhabited wraps the core so that the 2 facades are used. From outside each piece can be identified separately but at the same time defined by different vertical elements alike the interior division so…