Adaptation of establishment in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for the Provincial Delegation of the INE
Located: Avenida Alcalde José Ramírez Bethencourt, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Arquitecto: José Ramón Rodríguez Fernández
Arquitecto colaborador: Oliver Polegre Martín
Proyect: 2008
Completion: 2013
Area: 1.855 m2
Promoter: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)
This project develops the renovation of a premises distributed over two floors, it has two opposite facades, one facade facing Avenida Alcalde José Ramírez Bethencourt, facing northeast, where the customer service area is located, while its opposite facade faces a secondary pedestrian road, and therefore, facing southwest, serves as access for work and service personnel. As for its northwest facade, it is a party wall with another premises and the southeast facade is a party wall with the common areas of the residential tower.
In both plants, an entire program of needs proposed by the client is developed. The facade of the avenue is one floor high, it has a continuous plinth made of precast concrete pieces, on this plinth there is a strip of marble where all the holes open, to be finished off with a flying cornice also made of precast concrete pieces. On the cornice is the roof of the premises and a residential tower that is set back from the facade plane, not affecting its composition.
The facade of the premises with these aforementioned bands of prefabricated elements, has a horizontal reading, which is why in the proposed reform, this horizontality is further enhanced.
The facade towards the pedestrian street is two floor high, just as it is on the avenue facade. On the cornice is the roof of the premises and a residential tower that is set back from the facade plane.
This facade of the pedestrian street also has a horizontal reading that is enhanced with the proposed intervention. Both the white marble and the dark granite will be replaced by a new one with similar characteristics, the window openings will be torn up to the precast concrete band and all the aluminum carpentry will be replaced by new ones with high-performance thermal-acoustic conditions.
It has been decided to cover the window jambs with the same aluminum as these to achieve greater horizontality.
