Equipo Olivares

CasaChris

CasaChris

CasaChris

Equipo Olivares Arquitectos

STATUS
Built

AREA
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

TYPE
Residential › Private House

This project addresses an excess of servitude derived from the demanding topography and strict regulations through a straightforward strategy: a compact, clean and tidy body overlooking the Atlantic’s rising face and enjoying a panoramic view of the Anaga Mountains to the west.

CasaChris
CasaChris

It is a simple volume step section that tries to sit naturally on the terraced slope.

Located on top of a hill, in a residential area accessible by car, the house begins in the garage.

CasaChris
CasaChris

We value entrance rituals, the importance of the short journeys linking different levels.

Passing a stout stamped concrete wall bore through with an expansive expanded metal door, we access the house through a humid, Tropics inspired garden.

CasaChris
CasaChris
CasaChris

From this place we ascend to the top floor through a welcoming walk.

A stretched-out ramp, the underlying basalt rock, wet verdure and expanding overhead light are some of the elements surrounding us.

Above, architecture imparts a luminous reading: white surfaces, woodwork, Carrara marble, and concrete.

CasaChris
CasaChris

Rainwater pours over natural stone in the patio, slipping into the interior through a crack in the paving.

Sunlight is let in through mulberry latticework.

CasaChris
CasaChris

Bench railings segregate the lines of vision, opening up the blue horizon.

At the end of the journey, the top-level terrace protected by an overhang that provides a generous shade forms a balcony above a garden of euphorbias (cardones, tabaibas) and Barbary figs, and becomes an aspect of local landscape.

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Equipo Olivares
T +34 922 243232
Equipo Olivares
C. Méndez Núñez, 102, 38001 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain