The solution restored the façade and its characteristic elements, recovering the blinds of the guillotine windows based on glass and carpentry with wooden frames, disappeared. Similar materials were used in the rest of the building: lime and projected mortars, wood in the carpentry, polished and washed concrete that recall the old floated cement pavements.
Project description by Beautell Arquitectos
The building, located in the founding nucleus of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, was originally used as a single-family home and responds to the typology of traditional Canarian architecture buildings from the mid-19th century. Its simple façade, compositionally adheres to neoclassical aesthetics.
The building has undergone a series of profound reforms and interventions that have completely distorted it. The actions carried out managed to eliminate the majority of the masonry load-bearing walls, having been replaced by metal profile frames. A new reinforced concrete slab was also built that serves as a roof for the semi-basement. On the contrary, the façade kept its architectural values almost intact.
After the preliminary analysis carried out, and given the precarious state of the heritage building, the integral rehabilitation of the property was prescribed to maintain its current use as the headquarters of the “Diablos Locos” murga, which is a musical group of the Carnival of Tenerife.
Considering the environmental values of the building, made up of its volume, façade and materiality, and from the reinterpretation of our traditional architectures, it is intended to provide the property with a scheme of a house with a backyard, which allows the development of a diaphanous and flexible space compatible with the use to which the construction is intended.
The proposed solution involves restoring the façade and its characteristic elements, recovering the sash window enclosures made of glass and carpentry with wooden palillería, which have now disappeared.
Materiality. Materials similar to those present in the constructions of the time will be used, lime and projected mortars, wood in the carpentry, polished and washed concrete that recall the old floated cement pavements.
