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Auditorium and Congress Center in Morro Jable by Menis Arquitectos
Fernando Menis of Spanish practice Menis Arquitectos have started work on their competition-winning design for an auditorium and congress centre in the Pájara municipality of Fuerteventura, the Canary Islands.
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Located above the beaches on the south coast of the island, the building emerges from excavations in the rock.
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Menis describes the design, which won a competition for the project last year, as "a piece which recalls a broken rock, coming away from earth."
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Here's some text from Menis Arquitectos:
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Auditorium and Congress Center in Morro Jable
Pájara. Fuerteventura
Located in a privileged position, above the beaches at South Fuerteventura, the building emerges through the excavation and the mimesis with the site. Textures, colours and finishes answer to this aim, creating a piece which recalls a broken rock, coming away from earth.
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It is a sponge building, able to adapt to different situations and events, flexible, equipped with well balanced acoustics also prepared for different types of events, designed for low energy and maintaining costs.
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