EL ARQUITECTO FERNANDO MENIS INICIA UN CICLO DE CONFERENCIAS EN ASIA Y AMÉRICA

ARCHITECT FERNANDO MENIS LAUNCHES LECTURE IN ASIA AND AMERICA

In April and May he will explain his creative process in the cities of Hong Kong (China ), Dubai (UAE) and Bogota (Colombia).

The Canarian architect Fernando Menis, commencing in April will give a series of conferences in Asia and America, where he will explain his creative process in the cities of Hong Kong (China ), Dubai (UAE) and Bogota (Colombia). In his talks, will release some of the main elements of his work, through the Multifunctional Concert Hall “Jordanki” in Torun project (Poland), which won first prize in the competition held by the city of this European city competition and it highlights their ability to fuse tradition with modernity in the vicinity of a historical district.

With the title Evolutions, Torun Case Study, Menis will begin this series of lectures, on 17 April, in the Department of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong. Menis will explain to college students how, in his work, two references converge in the understanding of the evolution of both his architecture and his own creative process, “the passion for manual labor, which pervades every object, and spirit of the place to which it belongs”.

For his part, and by May the 4th, the Canarian architect will give the Evolutions conference, Multifunctional Concert Hall “Jordanki” in Torun  at the American University of Sharjah, in the city of Dubai. Finally, on May 13, Menis will travel to America to participate in 360th forum in the Colombian city of Bogotá, an important meeting of professionals in the field of architecture and construction, organized by the Cement Argos, with the support of Colombian Association of Concrete Producers.

Reason and emotion

The Canarian architect Fernando Menis used in the creative process, models, performing in a traditional way, when you start each project. As explained himself Fernando Menis, “mold each object helps us to discover more free and artistic architecture”. Another advantage is that you confront the object technology. Menis added that “common sense dealing with raw materials and their true potential is the context where it is inserted, it is the framework in which reason and emotion are combined”.

In the specific case of Multifunctional Concert Hall “Jordanki” in Torun, Menis Arquitectos solved merged traditional concepts and development, through the materials chosen. For the interior brick, a material with a strong presence in the facades of the historic center of this city of Poland, while for the exterior, he opted for the clear concrete, almost white, which suggests the interior was chosen to most mode rips.