The La Laguna City Council has already received “the basic and execution project prepared by Gesplan for the rehabilitation of the Menéndez House, with the aim of converting it into a large space for cultural use,” announced the Councilor for Works and Infrastructure, Adolfo Cordobés. .
The councilor explained that, at this time, the project “is being evaluated by technicians from the Works and Infrastructure area to, once it is verified that it adapts to the needs raised, put it out to tender in the course of 2024.” According to the project presented, the base tender budget for the rehabilitation of the property amounts to a total of 1,514,333 euros, IGIC included.
The mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, announced, in December 2022, the City Council’s intention to rehabilitate Casa Menéndez, located in the Gracia-Finca España area, to turn it into a large space for cultural use, commissioning the public company Gesplan drafting the basic and execution project.
The building, a family home that became property of the City Council as free space for an urban action unit, dates back to 1949 and has three floors with a constructed area of almost 500 square meters. It is located on a 6,551 square meter garden plot, also municipal property, whose maintenance is carried out by the Parks and Gardens service.
The project prepared by Gesplan includes the work necessary to convert the property into a large cultural center, “with associated facilities for its development that include multipurpose rooms of different surfaces, ground floor toilets and adapted toilets, reception and access hall, administrative offices, office, warehouse/archive and warehouse with independent access for use by the Parks and Gardens service,” the document states.
Recover your image
Furthermore, the project has been developed “from the idea of conservation and recovery of the image that the building originally presented and that is part of the memory of the area, preserving its morphology, composition of openings and facade ornaments, as well as the materials that “They made it up.”
Likewise, the document explains that to solve the interior accessibility problems that the building currently has, an elevator is incorporated attached to the northwest façade, which connects the three habitable floors from the central space; and regarding exterior accessibility, a ramp will be added.
Regarding the distribution of the three floors, on -1 there will be administrative uses, the archive/warehouse and an adapted toilet, as well as a toilet and warehouse with independent access for Parks and Gardens, in which a storage tank will be located. water and pressure group, as stated in the project.
Meanwhile, on the ground floor there will be the entrance and reception hall, which can be accessed from the main access terrace, arranged around the central staircase, the common distribution areas, with direct floor exit to the outside, the which connect these spaces with the elevator, and the two floor toilets, one of them adapted for people with reduced mobility and a toilet for people with ostomies, and finally the multipurpose rooms.
On floor 1 there is a central floor distribution space, articulated around the staircase, from which there is access to the floor toilets, one of which has been adapted, to the elevator, to a small terrace with public access and to the four multipurpose rooms.
Finally, on the 2nd floor, attic, as it does not have enough height to be habitable, it will be used for the layout of the building’s ventilation facilities and air conditioning machinery. Access to this plant will be restricted to maintenance work only.
