Fasnia will reconvert the old town cinema in a multifunctional cultural center. For this, the City Council received the 2,635,090 euros provided by the council (through the Directorate of Cultural Infrastructures of the Cabildo de Tenerife) and will add the 292,676 euros of municipal contribution that will complete the 2,926,767 euros of execution budget of the reform and rehabilitation project of the property.
Opened in 1952this movie theater is owned by the Government of the Canary Islands. On a plot of 514, classified as consolidated urban land, the new two-story building rises on 408 square meters and will have 1,142 of constructed area, of which 951 are useful. Located at number 1 Obispo Pérez Cáceres street, it is a property rooted in the fasniera society and was designed by the architect José Enrique Marrero Regalado. In fact, the main facades will be maintained, due to their patrimonial nature.
The original plot added the adjoining plot, of 218 square meters, an area designed to serve as an outdoor public space, dance floor and pergola. At some point between the current situation and the project years, this plot became private property, but the building shows an emblematic façade open to this site. If this land is recovered as public property, the proposal is to create a plaza.
“The work recovers a piece of our history and provides the municipality with a closed space for culture”
It’s all about building a compact, prismatic building, which will rise in the area of the current movie theater. The volumetry of the spaces attached to the room is maintained: lobby and the body of services, where the projection room and the cinematograph are located.
On the ground floor will be the reception and services, the multipurpose room or cinema and theater and the administration; the warehouse, dressing rooms, toilets and rehearsal area will be located in the basement; the first will house the security and administration area and the second floor will have two multipurpose rooms (one for workshops and the other for entities and groups), toilets, storage and cleaning.
The mayor of Fasnia, Luis Javier González, highlights the importance of this work “because the municipality lacks a closed space to hold cultural events. It will mean an important leap from that point of view.” The councilor adds the social link of the property “to several generations”, for which the cinema was a meeting point and coexistence. “It is to recover a piece of the history of Fasnia”, he concludes.
