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Concrete ring by MENIS
Online shop to buy the ring: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tienda-Amigos-del-Espacio-Cultural-El-Tanque/114592595335221
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Auditorio Insular de los Llanos de Aridane
Competition for Los Llanos Auditorium 1st place, 2006 The Auditorium rises as a broken petrous rock embedded in the ground and embraced by the landslide from Taburiente’s crater (an important natural park in the Canary Islands). The fundamental program consists of 5 pieces emerging from the ground, while in the landslide that embraces it, the…
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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…
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Instalación “Luz al limite”
Biennial of Art, Architecture and Landscape in the Canary Islands The Project “Luz al Límite” (light on the edge) was part of the I Biennale of Art, Architecture and Landscape in the Canary Islands 2006 and the context was the exhibition “Especies de Espacios” (Species of Spaces) directed by Juan Gopar, artist from Lanzarote. The…
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Workshop Atelier 3X in Paris
Is it possible to be a tourist in your own city? Cities of tourists are not real cities. They are turning in scenes that they recognize the advertising images that the own city uses to claim the tourist masses, finishing for consuming fragments of the city. Packagings for the tourism of masses, the tourist destinations…
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Atemporal in La Graciosa
The context in which the workshop is held is marked by the friction generated by the sudden arrival of mass tourism on the island, the wear caused by this invasion in a culture characterised by a highly specific, slower rhythm, incapable of assimilating the demands of modern tourism all at once. The forced encounter between…
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Transversatility in Vivancos
The present moment in which we approach work on Benicàssim may be idyllic. The whole city changes and is in a continuous process of transformation since its genesis. The idea of city is increasingly understood as an open object and enhanced, in flux, as an accumulation of facts and phenomena that come complete or degrade…
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Mobility, tourism, innovation
In order to understand the situation in Adeje and the reasons behind this workshop, we must first have an aunderstanding of the current tourist model and its origins i nthe beginning of the 170s. During these years, the southern part of the island of Tenerife underwent a boom in its tourist industry primarily within the…
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Estudio Urbanístico para Johanesburgo
Architects: Fernando Menis Location: Johanesburg. South Africa Use: Urbanism Status: Competition The proposal for Anglo American strove to solve the problem of a urban campus that had outgrown itself. The redesign of the buildings was essential in creating a cohesive readability and connection of the five buildings for the Anglo American company. Their campus exists…
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Iglesia para Air Force Village
Architects: Fernando Martin Menis Location: San Antonio Texas. EEUU Use: Church. Religious Center Structure: Reinforced concrete Materials: Concrete walls, steel Status: Project 2009 Client: Air Force EEUU Budget: $4,000,000 USD Chapel sitting generates two distinct exterior spaces. A main plaza becomes an area of social convergence, accommodating emergent functions such as a small cafe and…
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