Two ‘twin’ buildings with international signature, resistant to attacks and disasters

fernando menisthe author of the design Basic Service Buildings (ESE), twins what do they call them He is an internationally renowned Canarian architect. and its project is already arousing interest in different countries of the world. He even presented it in November in South Korea, where Menis was developing another work and was invited to a conference, and in December Lisboninside WAF, World Architecture Festival. It will be unveiled in Singapore this year and exhibited in Japan in 2024. International media such as South Africa, Japan, the United Kingdom or Italy also covered the project. Moreover, other autonomous communities have expressed a desire to see how ESEs are developed.. There are 1-1-2 emergency buildings centralized in Catalonia or Madrid, but 012, 1-1-2, telecare, police, Civil Guard or Marine Rescue. In this sense, They asked the Canarian Government to present the project at the European Congress in April 1-1-2. Explains Heritage managing director José Julián Isturitz. “It will be an innovative project leading Europe by giving tourists a very good view of some of the protected islands,” he emphasizes.

Menis team project with 60 people, Won a public contract from the Government of the Canary Islands in 2021. Funded by European funds (React-EU and Feder), the two buildings will cost €79.4m and house 1,100 employees (550 each building) spread across 18 infrastructures such as 1-1, most of which are currently rented. -2 In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Urbis building and the Mapfre building in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, leased for at least 25 years.

The Canary Government will start the tender for the works of this macro project in a month and a half. The twin and sustainable buildings, each with a construction area of ​​23,000 m2, are expected to be completed in the second half of 2025. may be based on exceptional situations of seismic and volcanological nature or those resulting from adverse meteorological events, An international team of Taiwanese earthquake experts, Dutch data processing experts and Spanish experts on hurricane winds in the Philippines was formed.the strongest in the world. They studied all the extreme events that have already taken place on the planet. They looked at Fukushima (the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami triggered a tsunami of magnitude 9 on the seismological scale, on the northeastern coast of the country); They also studied the largest waves, volcanoes, floods, hurricane winds or haze events approaching the earth.

All these negative factors have been taken into account to design two areas of maximum safety that are always operational despite crisis situations. “In Madrid, for example, the 1-1-2’s central building serves five million people, but it’s just one building and it will collapse one day if there’s a problem; in this case, These are mirror buildings, and if one falls, the other is there.”explains Isturitz, the creator of this macro project of the Ministry of Finance, which is led by Román Rodríguez and has an interdepartmental group from Social Rights, Health, Public Administrations and Security and Emergencies.

Architecture and engineering team considered formulating two buildings to help you live on safer islandswith more durable critical infrastructures designed to last. Although in different locations, it is located on an area of ​​21,550 m2 in Jinámar industrial estate, Telde, and 22,700 m2 in La Gallega Urbanization in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, at an altitude of 28 m. square meters and a 23,000-square-foot building area – four stories high, two basements, roofs for helipads and modern garden and recreation areas – have long been translated into greater economic sustainability. Menis explains that it is cheaper to maintain and operate.

To solve the relationship with the environment and to protect against any external influence, each EUT is designed with an outer ring as a strutcreates a large interior open space where the building is located. This barrier will be prepared to withstand, dissipate and mitigate the impact of giant waves, tidal waves and even lava rivers. The curved, rounded geometry of the buildings is inspired by the organic shapes of nature and aims for the element to flow sideways to reduce the effects on the structure in the event of possible lava or tsunami rivers.

Moreover, extremely ductile concrete structures are usedEssential for its operation in emergencies and disasters, allowing energy to dissipate without affecting its resistive capacity. “Concrete is an ideal material as it has a certain flexibility; It’s also locally sourced material, and if we have anything in the Islands it’s rocks and basalt,” explains Fernando Menis. One of his efforts is always to work with local materials and personnel. “There are lots of them in the Canary Islands. big molders and everything investing are distributed in the Islands; “Zero kilometer is a formula called architecture,” he says. For this type of buildings, basalt soil is magnificent, indestructible.It also helps other architects or technicians find the material in the Islands thirty years from now if they need to make a reform”, which makes the project more economical and strengthens not only the Canarian companies but also that part of the Islands. Investment in materials about 35% to 40% of the cost stays in the Canary Islands.

“It’s not a bunker, but a bunkered building. “Because the part of the Computer Center (Autonomous Community) is going to go is between concrete walls and they have to drop bombs to get there,” he says. The wiring is doubled to keep the building operational in case of an event.and acoustics play an important role, as these will be citizen services and emergency areas where there are multiple phones for immediate response without overlapping conversations. In the maximum security zone, a crisis room has also been set up, which they call the top. jellyfisha glass-enclosed monitoring room with the most important engine on the management floor to be used in an emergency.

In conclusion, Two properties have areas with maximum security measures., but with intimate resting areas for workers who have the important task of 24-hour security and citizen attention. Glazed interiors will be transparent and create a sense of immersion in the garden: aromatic, featuring bromeliads, rosemary, jasmine, small low cones, the occasional orange tree, virgin hair virgin hair and ferns. Relationship, relaxation, leisure and sports areas are planned in the inner courtyard. These two buildings are mainly 012, 1-1-2, telecare, health information service or medical transport, local, Canary and National police, firefighters, Civil Guards, Emergency Group (GES), Marine Rescue and patrimonial security of buildings. In addition, they will house core services such as Cyber ​​Center and Data Processing Center, among others.