Faculty of Fine Arts University of La Laguna by gpy arquitectos

Faculty of Fine Arts
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli

The new Faculty of Fine Arts is located in a heterogeneous area, adjacent to the island highway and on the periphery of the University Campus.

Our main challenge was to create a link between the new faculty building and its surroundings by working with the open public spaces and to increase the synergies between the academic complex and its urban context.

Faculty of Fine Arts
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The new building presents itself as an extension of the Campus’s public space, while creating an autonomous interior landscape of its own.

Faculty of Fine Arts
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A skin of suspended concrete slats adopts a curved shape which develops on the different levels protecting and wrapping the open space of the building.

Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © José Ramón Oller

Campus circulation is collected and guided by a public plaza that extends through the building’s main entrance and is transformed into a spacious terrace overlooking the inner courtyard.

Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © José Ramón Oller

From the main entrance, circulation is continuous, following half-open, undulating corridors.

Faculty of Fine Arts
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The teaching areas are distributed along a continuous band accompanying the open corridors and dispose of mobile dividing walls that allow for creating classrooms of different sizes or even opening up the whole floor, depending on the needs.

Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli

Adding to this flexibility in use are multiple spaces like the patio-gardens and open ramps, the covered galleries and the entrance terrace, conceived as open exhibition and teaching areas and places for social exchange.

Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli

We like to see the new Faculty of Fine Arts as a building that offers ground-breaking, innovative spaces for experimental and creative education of future students of visual arts. Source by gpy arquitectos.

Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli
  • Location: Tenerife. Canary Islands, Spain
  • Architects: gpy arquitectos
  • Project Team: Juan Antonio González Pérez, Urbano Yanes Tuña, Constanze Sixt
  • Collaborators: José Juan Aguilar Ramos, Attenya Campos de Armas, Carhel Chaves, Michel Correa Dos Ramos, Raquel GuancheGarcía, María Elena LacruzAlvira, Juan Luis MarichalHernández, Vanessa MayatoAntón, José Luis Novo Gómez, Laura PérezRodríguez, MichelaPestoni, Alessandro Preda, RubénServando Carrillo, Gabriel Walti
  • Technical Team: Luis Darias Martín (Asat), Héctor González Niebla (Asat), Juan Luis Marichal Hernández, José Ángel Yanes Tuña, Miriam Hernández Pérez
  • Consultants:FhecorIngenierosConsultores, GpiIngenieros, Servicio de Ingeniería del Terreno (ULPGC), PoaJardinería
  • Contract: UTE Edificio Bellas Artes
  • Client: Universidad de La Laguna
  • Area: Constructed Surface 32.260 m2
  • Plot Surface: 54.503 m2
  • Model: Katarzyna Billik, José Luis González Doña, Andrzej Gwizdala
  • Awards: German Design Council Iconic Awards, 2015 (Best of Best Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards), 2015 (Winner WAF World Architecture Festival, 2010), Finalist (Future Projects, Education)
  • Photographs: José Ramón OllerFilippo Poli, Courtesy of gpy arquitectos
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © José Ramón Oller
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © José Ramón Oller
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © José Ramón Oller
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © José Ramón Oller
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli
Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli
Faculty of Fine Arts
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Faculty of Fine Arts
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Faculty of Fine Arts
Photo © Filippo Poli
Faculty of Fine Arts
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Faculty of Fine Arts
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Faculty of Fine Arts
Level 1 and 2 Floor Plan
Faculty of Fine Arts
Level 3 and 4 Floor Plan
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