{"id":31782,"date":"2014-07-09T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/thalasso-hotel-tenerife\/"},"modified":"2016-09-15T19:13:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:13:41","slug":"thalasso-hotel-tenerife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/thalasso-hotel-tenerife\/","title":{"rendered":"thalasso hotel tenerife"},"content":{"rendered":"

This project is situated in the framework of the \u201cLas Teresitas\u201d beach redevelopment in Santa Cruz Tenerife. Following a competition won by Dominique Perrault in 2000, the redevelopment of Teresitas is based upon the primordial theme to respect the \u201cnatural\u201d image and to offer a different kind of \u201cseaside\u201d resort where no massive constructions are situated on the beachfront.\u00a0It is in this context that the project of the \u201cCiudadela\u201d develops. Its program includes: one luxury hotels (230 rooms), a parking garage (200 parking places), retail, restaurants etc.\u00a0The location of the former military battery is a deserted hill, void of both constructions and vegetation. It is, nonetheless,\u00a0a site to respect.\u00a0It is necessary, before anything, to define an architectural presence, more than an architectural act, by developing a new \u201cgeography\u201d: Imagine the Ciudadela like a fabric which envelops the actual topography of a new density and offers a new landscape.\u00a0This new landscape is supple; its surface area is defined by a large veil of metal mesh, vibrant like a living organism, a rhythm of interior and exterior lights.\u00a0The building, consisting of approx. 52.000 sqm is sited against the hill and oriented towards the valleys.\u00a0The two principal facades are defined: facade to the beach, behind the \u201cCiudadela\u201d. The substructure becomes part of the hill itself, black earth, planted, where serpentine pathways lead to the ridge, to the future botanical garden but also to the main plateau of the project: \u201cthe plateau of the landscape.\u201d Supporting diverse activities, it allows for the accumulation of \u201chotel\u201d cubes which recall the scale and the proportions of the old village.\u00a0Facade to the valleys over-viewing the future sports plain, the new urban zones and the mountain. This facade is more urban and imposing; it acts like a socket joint between different quarters of the city : the old center, the beach, the future development of sports activities, and the new urban developments. The vertical surface, situated above the lower urban area and concealing the voluminous parking, invites exchange among the retail, the leisure activity and the services (main hotel entries, and of\u00a0 <\/span>the parking, the gymnasium, the pools, stores, restaurants etc.).\u00a0This project represents a duality of the environment: nature and architecture.\u00a0Under the stainless steel metal mesh fabric, a new universe is revealed. It is a universe sensitive to visual pathways and practical routes, to places discreet or animated. It is an active and urban complex which compliments the ancient village and the village of the future.<\/p>\n