Description

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The ongoing project is currently being carried out by EMBT Miralles Tagliabue and concerns the reuse of disused structures in the area of Adeje in Tenerife, Spain. The existing buildings will be reused as residences and offices, a cafeteria with a pool will be designed in the southern part, while the main building in the highest part of the plot will be completed in order to serve as cultural/religious centre. 
The main building, which is situated in the northern-east part, consists of three floors: two basements that are designed in order to have recreational and storage uses. The semi-open ground floor will be covered by a parametric roof based in the repetition of a continuous module of dodecagonal form made with parametric tools (Grasshopper 3D). The final form of the dodecagon used in the roof is the result of the combination of triangles and squares and was inspired by the Tibetan and Buddhist art. 

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The roof, which will cover the central part of the building, will house the Gompa - Buddhist ecclesiastical fortifications of learning, lineage and sadhana. The Gompa area follows a general sacred geometrical mandala design of a central prayer hall containing a murti or thangka, benches for the monks or nuns to engage in prayer or meditation and attached living accommodation and auxiliary spaces. 

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The structure will be made out of wood and the extra columns used to support it will be of mixed material – concrete and wood. The openings in the roof as well as the moving perimetric walls (also wooden structures based in Tibetan geometry) will be covered by textile that permits natural ventilation and offer protection from the sun, since the climate in Canary Islands is temperate with mild winters and hot summers.  
Part of the project is also the landscape design of the site. 

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