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  • 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…

  • Jardín Botánico de la Orotava

    Awards: 1er Prize, International Architecture Competition Description: La Orotava Botanical Garden is one of the touristic, historical, cultural and environmental emblems of Tenerife Island. The garden rises with an architectural project that presents a circuit through the different areas containing the various environments of the garden, delicately connecting the urban context with the natural environment…

  • 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…

  • Concrete ring by MENIS

    Online shop to buy the ring: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tienda-Amigos-del-Espacio-Cultural-El-Tanque/114592595335221

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…