LAS TERESITAS
HOTEL
TENERIFE
SPAIN, 2000
HOSPITALITY
PR–167
The construction of the Las Teresitas hotel is part of a comprehensive development project for the beach at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. More than just another building, the project aims to create a landscape, recreating a geography that reconnects with the history and nature of the site.
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PROGRAM
The project includes the construction of a 10-story, 5-star hotel with 225 rooms, a wellness center, and a thalassotherapy center. The complex will also feature restaurants, shops, lounges, terraces, and meeting, conference, and congress facilities. Administrative offices and a 200-space underground parking garage complete the complex, providing a comprehensive setting for stays, wellness, and events.
DETAIL
Situation
Plage La Teresitas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Year
2000–2005
Status
International competition, winning project, no follow-up
Site area
122 500 m²
Built surface
52 000 m²
Client
City of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain
Architect
Dominique Perrault Architecte
Interior designer and design
Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
DESCRIPTION
During the war, the hill had been leveled to accommodate artillery batteries. The project proposes to recreate its topography, set back from a beach of blond sand imported from the Sahara, held in place by a seawall that prevents the sand from blowing away.
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The hotel, comprising 10 floors and 255 rooms, is part of this reshaping of the landscape, like an artificial continuation of the terrain. A series of large metal platforms rises to create balconies and terraces. A fabric, like a net edged with metal spandrels, hovers above the entire structure. Here, the mesh serves the organic, allowing nature and vegetation to reclaim their place on the facade. The net is invaded by bougainvillea that encircles the metal. The movements of the sea ripple across the material, like a wave sheltering the cars. Here and there, unique kiosks bask in the sun, topped with staggered elements: copper bungalows, each with a Breton-style roof. Forms devoid of affectation or coquetry. At the foot of the grand hotel, mesh parasols, sculpted like colossi, play among the palm trees. Thus, in this duality between nature and architecture, this construction is designed to integrate perfectly into its environment.
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