Auditorio de Tenerife

The Auditorio de Tenerife ( since 2011 officially Auditorio de Tenerife " Adán Martín ", German Auditorium of Tenerife ) is a congress and concert hall in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The building in the avant-garde design of the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava became the symbol of the island capital of Tenerife.

History and use

The idea for the construction of a concert hall in Tenerife dates back to the year 1970. Apart from the question of financing the question of location was unclear for a long time. 1979 as the architect Antonio Fernández Alba was commissioned to design, which was not realized an appropriate building. Having been to the south of the Old City of Santa Cruz located oil refinery had dominated the district of Los Llanos, began here in the 1980s, a complete urban redevelopment. In addition to high-rise buildings and shopping malls in this area was also designed by Santiago Calatrava exhibition hall.

Between this newly designed district and the harbor, you finally found the site for the auditorium. 1989 Santiago Calatrava was awarded the contract to build the new congress and concert building. The initially estimated at 30 million euro construction cost to completion 72 million euros. On 26 September 2003, the official opening of the building took place in the presence of Queen Sofia and Crown Prince Felipe. The opening concert Fanfarria Real for seven trumpets and orchestra was given a specially commissioned piece for the opening, which conducted the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki for the occasion itself.

The Auditorio de Tenerife by Santiago Calatrava, was different from the previous planning architects, from the beginning concert and congress hall meant to be. It is the home of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, one of the best Spanish Symphony Orchestra. Place annually in January and February events here at the Festival de Música de Canarias instead. By occasional opera guest performances and the architectural resemblance to the Sydney Opera House auditorium is partly called "Opera House of Tenerife ". 2008 dedicated the Spanish post in its series of stamps Arquitectura the building a brand to 0.31 euros. Since 28 January 2011, the building is officially known as Auditorio de Tenerife " Adán Martín " and thus honors the Canarian politician Adán Martín Menis.

Description and Architecture

The building is located on a 2.1 hectare property, located directly on the Atlantic coast in the district of Cabo Llanos between the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and designed by César Manrique Parque Maritimo. The segment-shaped plot of the building itself is 13,200 square meters. The Auditorio is surrounded by a 16,289 -square-foot space (Plaza Alisios ). This space is also used for open -air events. The floor area of 1200 square meters, including large foyers and two dining has 6300 square feet.

The 60 -meter-wide base swings falcate to 57 feet high and ends after about 100 meters in a peak above the hood- or shell-shaped roof of the building. The building is on a stepped base, in which technical facilities and changing rooms are housed. This concrete sickle has no real function and will only be used to illuminate the concert hall from above. The outer skin of the building is clad with trencadís. The millions of fragments of white tiles give the building its radiant effect and are a reference to the Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi, who used this technique, for example in the Park Guell. The design of the base floor shows parallels to Erich Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower in Potsdam, while the overall efficiency and its prominent location at the harbor remember, designed by Jørn Utzon, the Sydney Opera House. In literature, the architecture of the building is often associated with a shaft or a sailboat.

Inside the building there are two function rooms which share a foyer. The large hall ( sala principal o Sinfónica ) offers 1658 spectators, while the small hall ( sala de Cámara ) is provided for 428 visitors. The stage of the main hall is 16 meters deep and 7 meters wide and has three independent platforms; two for the orchestra and one for the stage machinery.

Both halls are suitable because of their acoustics and good visibility for many events. A vestibule between the passage and the small chamber music hall damps acoustic and surrounds. In addition, there are several smaller halls and rooms, a garage and a tract for the orchestra management, and storage rooms.

Concert organ

Since December 2005, the main hall has an organ. The instrument was built according to plans by Jean Guillou of the organ builder Blanca Fort Orgueners de Montserrat ( Montserrat, Spain). The organ pipes, the inner building geometry fit and form a continuation of the longitudinal arches. The organ consists of eight parts plants spread at a distance of 20 meters from one side of the hall to the other and thus create an interior sound. Including the Portative - work the organ has 68 registers ( 3,835 pipes ). The instrument can be from General gaming table (scan four manuals and pedal ). In addition, there are eight other game tables, each with a manual, so that a total of nine organists can play together.

  • Pairing: Normal Couplers: I / II, II / II, IV / II, I / P, II / P III / P IV / P
  • Various sub-and Superoktavkoppeln

Classification in the work of architect

The auditorium is Santiago Calatrava's first building for the performing arts. Born in Valencia in 1951 architect was noticed until the contracts for the audience mainly because of its bold design of the Alamillo Bridge in Seville. In addition to other bridges followed stations, high-rise buildings and museums. Among his best known works include the redesign according to the Metro at New York's Ground Zero, as well as the Olympic Stadium for the 2004 Games in Athens. In the meantime, he received orders for the construction of a concert hall for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Opera of Valencia.

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