Projects

2019 / Single-family house / Gran Canaria

Extension with an upper floor for living space above the existing garage.

The facade design focuses on the relationship between the upper floor, where the living space is located, and the lower floor, which houses the garage and other uses. The idea is to carve the facade as if it were a rock, while differentiating the two floors through their finishes.

The intention is to separate the ground floor from the upper floor with a spanning the entire facade, allowing light and ventilation into the open-plan garage, which can now be used for any activity.

The facade design defines the garage level as a solid element connected to the ground by a composite wood cladding, while the upper floor is defined as a light, white volume with carved openings that can be concealed by folding windows that control light and privacy, leaving the upper volume entirely white. 

2016 / Final Year Project

Paseo de San José / San Cristóbal / Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Landscape Between Neighborhoods and Faculty of Culinary Arts

The project's concept is for the proposed building to itself become the intermediate landscape between the San Cristóbal and San José neighborhoods, while simultaneously incorporating a faculty of culinary arts as a higher education center, replacing the existing secondary school specializing in restaurant management.

In this way, the project becomes a park for the residents, with a building that houses show-cooking kitchens, classrooms, a library, a media center, a restaurant, an events hall, and a tasting room, allowing the building to offer activities and be open to the public at all times. The resulting landscape incorporates the hillside, the cave, the forest, and the shade, with the building adapting to the site: a steep staircase with loose soil and the specific climate of the northern part of an island of the Canary Islands.