Location: C/ Arquitecto Marrero, nº 18, Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife.
Project: 2010
Completion: 2012
Area: 305,90 m2
Promoter: Privado.
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The present intervention corresponds to a Canarian House between party walls, with a typology of urban domestic architecture. It is a simple, modest house located within the Special Plan for the Protection and Interior Reform of the Historic Center of Granadilla de Abona, on the island of Tenerife.
The house is organized around a dividing patio, generating a “U” shaped home. It is two stories high, the upper floor corresponds to the street level and it houses the living room, the master bedroom and a bathroom. The ground floor corresponds to the level of the back garden where the kitchen - dining room, two bedrooms, a bathroom and a cellar are located.
It has two facades, one facing Arquitecto Marrero street (northeast facade) and another towards the back garden (southwest facade).
The façade on Arquitecto Marrero street consists of an access door and two sash windows. Almost certainly, this house was part of the one that adjoins on the left side, since there is evidence of this by having shared spaces in the patio, currently walled up, and it can also be seen that the access door corresponds to the other building and that in At some point in history, the house was divided, leaving it in its current situation.
The main objective of the project was to provide the house with the necessary habitability conditions for residential use and the conservation of the interior patio.
The predominant material is wood and all that was in good condition has been recovered. The sloping roofs, which were very deteriorated, had to be made new with the same slopes and heights as the original, taking advantage of this to install thermal and acoustic insulation. In the patio, the wooden uprights were kept and glass was used between them, to achieve greater luminosity in the house and integrate the patio into it. The interior wooden staircase, which was very narrow, was eliminated, creating a double space between the corridor on the ground floor and the upper floor, achieving greater spatial and visual cleanliness.
