Trapped within a curve of a motorway, this unfriendly site gave AMP Arquitectos very little to work with beyond the harsh desert landscape of the surrounding Chasna rock and the distant sea horizon. Therefore they designed the Magma Convention Center to be part of the landscape, to merge both physically and conceptually with the rock. Located right in the heart of the South of Tenerife, Magma Convention Center is an architecturally unique multifunctional building that is designed to satisfy the needs of any event.

Resembling a series of growths rising from the ground, the building recalls a sophisticated composition put together with irregular and coarse volumes under a white roof recalling the molten lava of the surrounding environment. To prepare for the commission, the architects adapted the American model of a single, raw, multifunctional space for convention centers rather than breaking the facility into the separate elements of a fixed-seat auditorium, an exhibition hall, and a meeting center, as is common in Spain.

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