Los Silos Youth Centre in Isla de Tenerife, Spain by Lavin Arquitectos

The concrete plane like a tectonic plate, folds the land and incorporates, by way of an embracing gesture, a recreation of fragments of nature, the landscape and vegetation which spirals in a single centripetal movement to absorb the visual and spatial flows of its surroundings.The design combines versatility, ambivalence y permeability, to generate an interrelation of interior spaces and to project these towards the exterior.

Instead of designing the building as an isolated object, it has been conceived as a vertebra for the surrounding spaces, that is to say, as a medium to define a new harmonious space and not as a simple occupation of a site.

The volumetric dynamism is accentuated by the marked grooves of the concrete, in the tapering lines of the exterior ramp and in the light well which diagonally crosses the entrance lobby to form a crack of light which allows a spatial communication between the interior and the terrace/ viewing platform.

Architects: Lavin Arquitectos
Client: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife
Area Construction: 310.26 sqm,
Landscaping: 143.10 sqm
Graphic Design: Emilio Z. Estévez Fuentes
Fotografía: Miguel de Guzmán