House S
Located in the urban center of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the project deals with the Integral reform of a corner house of 130 square meters, on the last level of a four-storey building.
The original distribution presented the separate day uses, placing living room and kitchen at opposite ends of the house, connected by means of an extensive corridor that gave access to the bedrooms.
The situation at the corner in front of a square and the existence of a private courtyard gave the house some unusual characteristics, since no room had the need to protect itself from the neighboring looks.
The intervention proposed a reconfiguration of the functional scheme, betting on more open spaces and solutions that help mitigate the feeling of depth of the house.
In the new house, a wooden envelope screws on itself in the main access, generating an entrance space with enough dimension to have a watertight character. This solution allows to build a space of transition between the access and the public rooms, which are concentrated in a single environment that absorbs the corner and favors that the day area has facade to west and south, with dominant views over the square.
The wooden skin unfolds and accompanies in the tour to the bedrooms, shortening its length and giving it a more friendly look. Behind the integrated doors are hidden the bedrooms and the wet areas, which are singularised by the massive use of colour.
Both the spatial configuration and the formalization of the proposal are clearly conditioned by the presence of the structure, in which stand out two reinforced concrete beams that define the two guidelines of the project and that are assumed as elements that determine the formal definition of the intervention.
