Iglesia del Santisimo Redentor

Arquitecto Proyecto: Fernando Menis Colaboradores: Niels Heinrich, Roberto Delgado, Sergio Bruns, Maria Berga Aparejador: Andrés Pedreño, Rafael Hernández Estructuras: Juan José Gallardo Instalaciones: Milian Associats, Ojellon Ingenieros, Nueva Terrain SL Otros Consultores: Audioscan (acustica) Localización: Autopista Tenerife Norte, Los Majuelos-Las Chumberas, La Laguna, SPAIN Fecha: 02/2008 Cliente: PARROQUIA DEL SANTISIMO REDENTOR Superficie: 1,050.00m² Empresa Constructora: Carolina Construcciones

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IGLESIA DEL SANTÍSIMO REDENTOR La Iglesia del Santísimo Redentor está dedicada a la Resurrección, uno de los momentos más importantes en la historia del Cristianismo. Pues, cuando los seguidores comienzan a perder la fe, la Resurrección demuestra que la Palabra de Jesús era verdad. Un diseño compuesto de dos elementos. Grandes volúmenes de hormigón conforman junto con la luz la totalidad del proyecto. La iglesia como el primer episodio del Vía Lucis, la cueva donde fue enterrado Jesús. Un edificio austero, ausente de elementos superfluos, ataduras, como la vida que llevó y el lugar donde resucitó. Al entrar, al fondo, aparece la cruz desnuda e iluminada. Jesús ha resucitado. Detrás, una cascada de luz simbolizando el hueco de la entrada a la cueva. ¡La luz! ¡La vida, la purificación, la resurrección, la alegría y limpieza! Ilumina cada uno de los sacramentos. Da vida al bautismo, la confirmación, la eucaristía, la penitencia, la unción, al matrimonio y la orden sagrada. De este modo, la primera luz del día, a través de la cruz, ilumina la pila bautismal, la primera luz del cristiano. Al mediodía, a través del lucernario, se ilumina el altar, la confirmación y la eucaristía. A las 12:00, la Palabra. Un haz de luz se derrama frente al confesionario sobre el sacramento de la penitencia. El paso de la oscuridad a la luz, de la muerte a la vida. La disposición estratégica de los lucernarios logra el mismo efecto sobre la unción, el matrimonio y la orden sacerdotal. La contundencia volumétrica y el juego racional de la luz conforman una iglesia de profunda raíz teológica, donde la resurrección cobra protagonismo y a través de la luz ilumina al creyente.

 

Church of the Santísimo Redentor The Church of the Santísimo Redentor (Holiest Redeemer) is dedicated to the Resurrection, one of the most important moments in the history of the Christianity. So, when the followers begin to lose the faith, the Resurrection demonstrates that Jesus’ Word was true. The design consists of two elements. Big volumes of concrete shape together with the light the totality of the project. The church as the first episode of the Vía Lucis represents the cave where Jesus lied. An austere building absent of superfluous elements, ties, as the life that went and the place where he revived. When we enter, looking to the background, there appears the clear and illuminated cross. Jesus has revived. Behind, a waterfall of light symbolizes the hollow of the entry to the cave. The light! The life, the purification, the resurrection, the happiness and cleanliness! Each of the sacraments are illuminated. It gives life to the baptism, the confirmation, the Eucharist, the penitence, to the marriage and the sacred order. Thus, the first light of the day, across the cross, illuminates the baptismal sink, the first light of the Christian. At noon, across the ceiling window, the altar, the confirmation and the Eucharist are illuminated. At 12:00, the Word. A bundle of light falls into the confessionary and on the sacrament of the penitence. It’s the way from the darkness to the light, from the death to the life. The strategic position of the ceiling windows achieves the same effect on the marriage and the priestly order. The strength of the volumes and the rational game of the light give to the church the shape of deep theological root, where the resurrection increases its significance and across the light it illuminates the believer.   Galería:

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Fernando Menis
, 1951, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Professor at the European University of Canarias and Chairman of the Laboratory for Innovation in Architecture, Design and Advanced Tourism of Tenerife, he also participates as a jury member, director of workshops, lecturer at Harvard, Columbia New York, ESA Paris, TU Berlin, Akbild Vienna and speaker in Architecture Festivals and conferences in Switzerland, Australia, Singapore, South Africa, Croatia, Italy, Colombia, India, etc.

After studying architecture in Barcelona, between 1981 – 2004, he teams with 2 other partners under the name Artengo-Menis-Pastrana. In 2004, he founds the practice Menis Arquitectos with headquarters in Tenerife. Independently or in co-authorship, Menis signs projects that are built such as: Insular Athletics Stadium (2007), Magma Art & Congress (2005), Swimming Pool in the River Spree in Berlin (2004), Presidency of the Canary Islands (1999) as well as new projects still in process: Auditorium Jordneki in Poland, Fuerteventura Congress Center, Aurum House in Taiwan, Taipei Residential Tower, Holy Redeemer Church in La Laguna.

Several times awarded in the Regional Awards for Architecture in The Canary Islands, as well as National and international winner and finalist in the FAD and WAF Awards (winner of two categories in 2012), or the Spanish Architecture Biennial, he is often invited to participate in the Venice Biennale and other exhibitions at the Aedes Berlin (2006), GA Tokyo (2009) and MoMA NY which included the “Holy Redeemer Church” model in his permanent collection on 2013.