Chimney and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García
30/05/2023.
[Guía de Isora] Spain
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The architects Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García have teamed up to carry out the project for a social club in the surroundings of the Abama Golf Course, located in the south of the island of Tenerife. The new complex is positioned on a plot on an irregularly shaped hillside with a slight slope to the west, with views toward the island of La Gomera.
The program unfolds seeking integration with the surrounding topography and landscape, adapting its different areas of entertainment, social, and facilities, in four staggered levels, which make it easier for the building to fit into the slope following the platforms of different terraces made by them. architects, for a previous housing complex.
The program unfolds seeking integration with the surrounding topography and landscape, adapting its different areas of entertainment, social, and facilities, in four staggered levels, which make it easier for the building to fit into the slope following the platforms of different terraces made by them. architects, for a previous housing complex.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Square floor plan. Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García.
Constructive section. Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García.
Sketch. Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García.
Sketch. Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García.
Rendering. Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García.
Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García organize the complex through a series of parallel structural porticos, strictly towards the sunset. The control of the scales and dimensions, and the use of local materials, together with the gardening, contribute to the insertion of the complex into the landscape.
The chimney arises before the completion of the works as a solution for the extraction of smoke from a restaurant with a kitchen on the lower floor of the complex, proposed by the owners just before the completion of the works. The installation is made with a metal structure following an oval plan, more than thirteen meters high, covered with pieces of bamboo.
"Between complex geometries and narrow dimensions, the bamboo chimney, together with the palm trees and plants suitable for the gloomy space, characterize the new garden."
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
Description of project by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García
The club is located in the surroundings of the Abama Golf Course, in a new extension of the tourist resort, in the south of the island of Tenerife. It occupies an irregularly shaped plot with a slight slope to the west, with views towards La Gomera.
The required program - swimming pool and solarium, social spaces, public square, shops, restaurants and underground parking - is organized in four staggered levels. The building is embedded in the profile of the ‘medianía’, downhill, in continuity with the terraces that occupy, at the upper level, the Villas del Tenis - work of the same architects -.
The lines of pillars are arranged in parallel, strictly towards the sunset, determining the oriented distribution of each of the planned uses. Each of the spaces preserves the look towards the Atlantic horizon.
Fireplace and garden in the Abama Social Club by Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros and Eustaquio Martínez García. Photograph by Duccio Malagamba.
The control of scales and dimensions, and the use of materials typical of the local tradition, such as exposed concrete and wood, contribute, attached to gardening, to the insertion of the built complex into the landscape.
The chimney appears just before the completion of the works, when the Property decides to have a new restaurant with a kitchen on the lower floor of the complex. The impossibility of resolving the extraction of gases through the building itself forces its disposal inside the adjacent communications patio.
A metal structure with an oval plan, more than thirteen meters high, covered with wooden sticks, hides the evacuation and maintenance system required. Between complex geometries and narrow dimensions, the bamboo chimney, together with the palm trees and plants suitable for the gloomy space, characterize the new garden.
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Architects
Collaborators
Collaborating fireplace architect.- Adrián Albardíaz Lorenzo.
Calculation of fireplace Structures.- Aquilino Dorta Dorta, Industrial Technical Engineer.
Calculation of fireplace Structures.- Aquilino Dorta Dorta, Industrial Technical Engineer.
Client
Abama Fase IV, S.L.
Builder
Acciona.
Dates
Project and construction.- Year 2022/2023.
Location
Abama Social Club. Guía de Isora, Tenerife. Spain.
Manufacturers
Metallic structure.- A.I.M. Carpintería Metálica.
Wood carpentry.- Orocarpin.
Gardening.- POA Jardinería.
Wood carpentry.- Orocarpin.
Gardening.- POA Jardinería.
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Virgilio Luis Gutiérrez Herreros
Virgilio Luis Gutiérrez Herreros is an architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid since 1982. He founded his own professional office in Santa Cruz de Tenerife since 1984. Is a member of Culture and President of the Demarcation of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro del Colegio of Architects of the Canary Islands, from 1995 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2007, respectively. Is the promoter from the COAC of conferences and courses on Architecture and Landscape, and of the editions of the Documents of Canarian Architects or the Contemporary Architecture Guide of Tenerife.
Collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, in the development of the project and construction management of TEA-Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 1998/2008, and in construction management of Plaza de España, 2006/2008. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 1st Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands, 2006/2007. Co-director of the 2nd Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands, in its beginnings, 2008. Dean of the College of Architects of the Canary Islands, 2008/2010. Collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, as External Supervisor, in the development of the project for the 'BBVA Headquarters in Madrid', 2009/2011. Academic of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2015. Tutor of the final master's project of the first class of qualified architects of the European University of the Canary Islands, January/July 2018. Member of the Board of Directors of TEA since its constitution in 2009 until the end of 2019. Promoter of '... towards a collection on the limit...' - drawings and photographs - architecture and landscape -. Architecture Award of the Canary Islands and Tenerife: 3 first prizes (1 with Eustaquio), 9 distinctions (3 with Eustaquio) and 17 selected works. Jury member and competition advisor. Participation in critical sessions organized by the Schools of Architecture of Harvard, Lausanne, Madrid-Princeton, North London, ETH Zurich-Studio Basel, Universidad Europea de Canarias and the School of Architecture of Las Palmas.
Collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, in the development of the project and construction management of TEA-Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 1998/2008, and in construction management of Plaza de España, 2006/2008. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 1st Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands, 2006/2007. Co-director of the 2nd Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands, in its beginnings, 2008. Dean of the College of Architects of the Canary Islands, 2008/2010. Collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, as External Supervisor, in the development of the project for the 'BBVA Headquarters in Madrid', 2009/2011. Academic of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2015. Tutor of the final master's project of the first class of qualified architects of the European University of the Canary Islands, January/July 2018. Member of the Board of Directors of TEA since its constitution in 2009 until the end of 2019. Promoter of '... towards a collection on the limit...' - drawings and photographs - architecture and landscape -. Architecture Award of the Canary Islands and Tenerife: 3 first prizes (1 with Eustaquio), 9 distinctions (3 with Eustaquio) and 17 selected works. Jury member and competition advisor. Participation in critical sessions organized by the Schools of Architecture of Harvard, Lausanne, Madrid-Princeton, North London, ETH Zurich-Studio Basel, Universidad Europea de Canarias and the School of Architecture of Las Palmas.
Eustaquio Martínez García
Eustaquio Martínez García is an architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture since 1981. He was associated with the architect, Arsenio Pérez Amaral, from 1982 to 1984. He founded NTRES Arquitectos in 1984, with Arsenio Pérez Amaral and Antonio Corona Bosch, until 2002. Founded EM arquitectos in 2002.
Architecture Award of the Canary Islands and Tenerife: Architecture Award of the Canary Islands 1990/1991 - "Jet-Foil Maritime Station" - Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Selected work for the II Biennial of Spanish Architecture 1990/1991. Honorable Mention Architecture Award of Canarias 2002/2003 - "Passenger Terminal at Tenerife North Airport" - First Prize in the Ideas Competition, 1996 - Selected work in the exhibition "ON SITE New Architecture in Spain", MoMA, New York, 2006. Architecture Award from Tenerife for the best work of the decade 2008/2017, in the category of housing: "Agrupación de 8 Villas en Abama". Other awards: First Prize in the Ideas Contest Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias - Candelaria, in collaboration with Ruiz Larrea & Asociados, 2009. European Communities Award for Best Public Work 1999/2000 - Urban Plan - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2000.
Architecture Award of the Canary Islands and Tenerife: Architecture Award of the Canary Islands 1990/1991 - "Jet-Foil Maritime Station" - Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Selected work for the II Biennial of Spanish Architecture 1990/1991. Honorable Mention Architecture Award of Canarias 2002/2003 - "Passenger Terminal at Tenerife North Airport" - First Prize in the Ideas Competition, 1996 - Selected work in the exhibition "ON SITE New Architecture in Spain", MoMA, New York, 2006. Architecture Award from Tenerife for the best work of the decade 2008/2017, in the category of housing: "Agrupación de 8 Villas en Abama". Other awards: First Prize in the Ideas Contest Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias - Candelaria, in collaboration with Ruiz Larrea & Asociados, 2009. European Communities Award for Best Public Work 1999/2000 - Urban Plan - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2000.
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