Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable area submitted by our neighborhood of designers, designers, contractors, and house owners. Have one to share? Post it here.Project Information: Location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain From the Designer: “The job conceives the domestic environment as an open and adaptable structure, capable of accommodating modifications of use over time without losing spatial quality. In contrast to designs based on stiff functions, the project is grounded in an ethic of sufficiency: exact spaces, nonhierarchical and without repaired programmatic tasks.” Your home is organized through a clear structural system and a displaced yard that controls both environment
and area. This strategy improves environmental comfort and responds to the insular condition of the Canary Islands, where effectiveness in using resources and the intelligent usage of environment are important.”Building systems are hierarchized according to their lifespan: a concrete structure (over 50 years), walls of picón Canary block and wood-cement exteriors as sustainable layers( 30 to 40 years), and interior lumber components that can be quickly replaced (15 to 25 years). Strategy, environment, and daily use are balanced as the support for an adequate domestic life.”