The project to renovate the old cinema in Fasnia will begin within a month. The works have been awarded for an amount exceeding three million Euros with funding provided by the Cultural Infrastructures Department of the Tenerife Island Council, with a completion deadline of under two years. The aim is to transform this property located in the urban centre into a multifunctional cultural centre.
This refurbishment project of the building inaugurated as a cinema in 1952 will take place on a plot of 514 square meters, classified as consolidated urban land. The intervention will affect a two-storey building that rises on 408 square meters which will ultimately have 1,142 square meters of built area, of which 951 will be usable space.
The works will start in a month and must be completed within two years
The intervention will preserve the main facades of what used to be Fasnia’s cinema, due to its heritage value. The goal is to build a compact building that will rise within the existing cinema hall. The volume of the spaces adjacent to the hall will remain: lobby and the service area, where the screening room and cinematograph are located.
Layout
The ground floor will house the reception and services, the multipurpose room or cinema and theatre, and the administration; the basement will accommodate the storage area, dressing rooms, toilets, and rehearsal space; the first floor will include the security and administration area while the second floor will have two multipurpose rooms (one for workshops and another for entities and groups), toilets, storage, and cleaning area.
The project has the particularity that the original plot included the adjacent 218 square meter area, designed to serve as an outdoor public space, dance floor and pergola. However, currently, this area is privately owned, but the building subject to this project features an emblematic façade open to this plot of land. The municipal Corporation’s plan is that if this land returns to public ownership, a square will be built.
A unique space
The Government of the Canaries is the owner of the old cinema in Fasnia, a property located at number 1 Obispo Pérez Cáceres Street, closely linked to the people of Fasnia and designed by the architect from Granadilla, José Enrique Marrero Regalado.
The mayor, Luis Javier González, referred to the “sentimental value” of this building, a “meeting point and gathering place for several generations” of the people of Fasnia. The implementation of this project will provide the municipality with an enclosed venue to hold events and activities.
Iscan Norte, SL is the awarded company for the refurbishment works of the old cinema in Fasnia as well as for the supply and equipment, furniture, audiovisual equipment, lighting, and sound. María León Ferreiro takes on the role of project management and its execution.
