Detail of the project ed. 2020

BEAUTELL ALE­JAN­DRO – CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS

Design­er	Ale­jan­dro Beautell
Loca­tion	Avda. Radioafi­ciona­dos 4, 38320, La Lagu­na, Tener­ife, Spain
Design Team	Hilde­bran­do Díaz — Quan­ti­ty surveyor Ale­jan­dro Mesa — Indus­tri­al engineer Flavio Dor­ta — Draftsman José C. Díaz — Architect
Year	2019
Pho­to credits	Pho­tog­ra­ph­er — Flavio Dor­ta (All files)

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Project descrip­tion

The inter­ven­tion con­sist­ed of trans­form­ing an exist­ing struc­ture of unfin­ished build­ing, it wasn’t com­plet­ed for var­i­ous rea­sons, in the new and much need­ed tem­ple for Las Man­te­cas neighbourhood.
Giv­en the state of dete­ri­o­ra­tion which the struc­ture pre­sent­ed after more than ten years of aban­don­ment, the parish com­mu­ni­ty had decid­ed to adapt and fin­ish up the exist­ing rein­forced con­crete struc­ture and thus avoid its fur­ther decaying.
The inten­tion of new las Man­te­cas Church design was not to absorb the pre-exist­ing struc­ture, but to respect­ful­ly inter­vene embrac­ing its orig­i­nal form. As the inter­ven­tion avoid­ed sub­stan­tial changes to the exist­ing struc­ture, the com­mu­ni­ty in the future can decide to expand the build­ing exe­cut­ing it in phases.
For this pur­pose, wood is used as the only enclo­sure and space divi­sion mate­r­i­al. This dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion in mate­ri­als makes pos­si­ble to estab­lish a for­mal dis­tinc­tion between the new work and the exist­ing one, in a ges­ture that respects the author­ship of the par­tial­ly raised structure.
The main access to the new Church build­ing is from the low­er lev­el of the plot through a con­crete square, sur­round­ed by large planters. The main façade of the Church is closed with fold­ing wood­en doors that allow the space to open com­plete­ly to the out­side when it is nec­es­sary to expand the capac­i­ty of the Church.
At the for­mal lev­el, the new parish Church is a lumi­nous and aus­tere con­struc­tion, with the exclu­sive use of two mate­ri­als: wood for the ver­ti­cal walls and con­crete for the floors and the altar.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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