UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA

The then municipal architect of La Laguna, Carmelo Ro dr guez Hern ndez born in that city in 1924, doctor in 1965 by the Higher School of Architecture in Madrid, not only did the works corresponding to the layout of gardens and urbanization, but also those corresponding to the reform and finishing of the chapel, according to a project signed on January 28, 1960 and approved in July of that year. The sacral enclosure was small and its structure, with pavement and roof, was arranged, therefore it anticipates to carry out its extension and general decoration, so that the presbytery would remain with an irregular plan, slanted to one side by the sacristy to raise, arranging in the background stained glass windows of abstract composition and light color to allow good lighting. However, nowadays the temple is home to a temple with a rectangular main chapel and a ship, on which the choir stands; The ceiling is made of concrete with recessed wooden beams for its decoration.

The presbytery is decorated with a mural composition in which San Fernando appears, in brass sheet on mulberry splinting (6 m high), by Enrique Cejas Zald var (Cdiz, 1915-La Laguna, 1986) , a sculptor who was a professor of drawing at the University of La Laguna between 1960 and 1968, although they later taught to dedicate themselves to artistic work, in which they discovered what was done in the Plaza de Espa a in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the monuments to the Marquis of Villanueva del Prado in the Botanical Garden of the Orotava Valley, to Bishop Domingo P rez C ceres in ...

The list of paid wages and materials is saved on November 22, 1949 to make the half fountain of the courtyard in front of the river, which still prints a natural charm at the entrance. But that was not the end of the external arrangement as gardens. In February 1959 the municipal architect of La Laguna, Carme lo Rodr guez Hern ndez, presented the project of urbanization and exterior finishing of the university headquarters, it was pointed out that the interior functional solution was as important as that of its exterior appearance, given its location next to the access roads to the city and the rest of the Island. However, it also foresaw the possibility of expanding the complex, so that it would not be hindered by its trace, relative to three basic points: a) The low lands will be conditioned for a park, with a central promenade along the axis of the main building, ending in a platform with a very low and two access doors, as the first perspective from the Stone Cross , which marks the traditional entrance to La Laguna. b) The perspective from the street of Heraclio S n chez is marked by a gate-gate, open on the wall. c) In front of the avenue of the Trinity a porch of arcades will be organized on the sidewalk, with a wide entrance for cars and peato nes. He also provided a covered parking25.

Today, in the middle of the gardens stands a pedestal that supports a bronze figure, which represents the gracious Venezuelan Andro s Bello, of Canarian descent, so he wanted to honor his memory, a good symbol of ...

However, the university campus was not restricted to the group inaugurated in January 1953, as the growing number of students enrolled was forcing reforms to install classrooms and offices at the level of a third floor, without obstructing the facade. Likewise, in order to receive part of the then Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, a new construction communicated with the main complex had to be erected through a bridge-like corridor, according to plans by Canarian architect Jorge Toledo D az-Llanos, who drew a three-storey building, taking advantage of the uneven terrain with another three of lower surface. It began to rise in 1967 with a smaller number of floors, but the implantation of Geography studies forced to lift one more, so that the group hosted sixteen classrooms u2014 each with a surface ranging between 40 and 200 seats u2014, in addition to nine departments u2014 with offices, teachers' cabinets, seminary and library u2014, as well as secreting and boardroom. In October 1970, with the new course, students and teachers were already installed in this place.

A few years later, the architect Felipe Hodgson Ray was commissioned to give the ensemble a more ornamental aspect, adding semicircular elements on the outside as a simple decoration. Inside, the characteristic adaptations were produced to meet the new structures of the departments, suppressing libraries, duplicating offices, etc.

This large enclosure is located in the central axis of the great building. In 1953 Domingo Pisaca and Burgada signed the report of Ter mination and decoration of Paraninfo 30. First, a false flat roof had been constructed, under the roof skirts, integrated by shrouded and wooden slats, trained to the metal trusses. Decks, whose wooden framework, receives plaster boxes at different heights and scotland [...] to receive in the two large boxes, pictorial elements, illuminated by indirect fluorescent light, hidden in wide Scottish plaster, but the pictorial decoration to the temperament envisaged in principle had to be replaced by another on canvas, so the arch had to pay attention to the preparation of this ceiling in its upper resistance, perfect flat surface and insulation of possible humidities of the environment, forcing the formation of a continuous roof directly below the current plaster ceiling, based on Tablex manufacturing boards with a thickness of 3.50 mm anchored by wires of galvanized iron through the drywall, slatted, wrapped and top trusses. The architect3 u2019 reports on all this on April 12, 1956, who had previously even presented a design of the door of the vestibule32.

The general director of University Education had approved in December 1954 the suggestion of commissioning Mariano de Coss or the pictorial decoration of the paraninfo, to be carried out in tempera and a single range of septal tones, developing two positions, The D...

MUNICIPALITY San Crist bal de La Laguna

ZONE District1- Historic Center

ADDRESS Calle Delgado Barreto, 48-50