At the beginning of 1933, Asensio Ayala commissioned Miguel Mart n a project that became one of the most brilliant works of the Grancanarian architect. The project was signed in April 1933 and the work was completed in March 1936. The project of the building is proposed taking as a premise the free floor, which allows to adjust the distribution of the interior space to a minimum according to the particular needs of each sector Consequently, the layout of the house accuses a great concern for functionality; The compositional synopsis is identified with a scheme of reduction of the structure to a simple technological essence that is then organized freely in the corresponding area.
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Two clean prism volumes are sectioned by a continuous terrace, flown on one side, along the facade. It has free-floor slabs whose rooms are connected. Horizontal stripes of windows. Inside, the ground floor are living rooms. The house is developed, on the first level, with bedrooms in the square volume on the right and office, kitchen, dining room and bathroom or in the rectangular volume on the left. Circulations take place on the meeting line of both volumes. Elements of Interest: Distribution of the facade and construction materials of the carpenter and the interior staircase. Interior decoration Treatment of volumes.
MUNICIPALITY Santa Cruz de Tenerife AREA Centro-Ifara District ADDRESS N Rambla de Santa Cruz, 89.
Reinforced concrete.
Degree of Protection: Integral Card n 371.
Catalog of Protection of Architectural and Urban Heritage. PGO Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 2014 Partial Definitive Approval.
Property included in the enclosure of the BIC Conjunto Hist rico Barrio de los Hoteles-Pino de Oro.
Fundación Centro Internacional para la Conservación del Patrimonio.
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Inscrita con el Nº 952 en el Registro de Fundaciones del Ministerio de Cultura por Orden Ministerial 27/10/2010, BOE de 22 de Noviembre.
- File of the Cat Logo of Architectural and Urban Heritage of the PGO Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Partial Final Approval, 2014. Vol. 3. Volume 3.2.1.
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