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.
Passing a stout stamped concrete wall bore through with an expansive expanded metal door, we access the house through a humid, Tropics inspired garden.
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.
Rainwater pours over natural stone in the patio, slipping into the interior through a crack in the paving.

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.
