I Premio de Arquitectura Miguel Martín-Fernández de la Torre

New place for meetings. Contextual intervention.
In an industrial context with low architectural value, the
sports city of Siete Palmas is located like an island within
an island. There, a hermetic and emphatic volume rises
in search of a relationship with the volcanic landscape of
the main mountain range of the island and the horizon
– northern ocean creating a new identity and a renewed
focus for the place.
The proposal adapts to the plot of land by constructing
a building-object against the whole urban landscape
it is inserted in. The acts like a tidy reference within the
urban chaos, from vehicle and pedestrian traffic that run
around it, and its location upon the plot of land, a place
of major circulation junctions and of a better control of
the densification of the pressure created in the area. Its
location in the plot of land aims are giving an answer to
the city whilst at the same time creating an urban space
that can be used as a place of encounters, an urban
square with myriad possibilities.
Constant dialogue between this square and the building
gives way to a mutual dependency that created a unique
system. In other words, the new architectural symbol
would not be understood without its urban space and
vice versa. The square becomes the welcoming point of
all the functional offers created by the Multi-use Palace
and, at the same time, an open urban proposal for all the
people living in the area and on the island.
A CONCRETE TROUGH
The volcanic nature of Gran Canaria comes to mind due
to the mineral aspect of the landmark that, thanks to the
volumetric manipulation in the union of its outside roof
and the internal stands, it takes on a stone piece identity
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