This house so characteristic of the Tima sea side of the city of Santa Cruz, is located on Calle La Marina, although by its arrangement it also opens towards Anaga Avenue or Francisco La Roche. It was devised by the municipal architect Antonio Pintor, in 1913, for the La Roche family.
In the beginning, it was designed as a single-family home, currently it houses different businesses dedicated to the hotel, which altered the interior distribution of the same, having disappeared an inner courtyard that has the building.
Sistema constructivo con ocho ángulos iguales y cuyo contorno tiene ocho lados,cuatro alternados iguales y los otros cuatro tambien iguales pero diferentes de los primeros normalmente.
Denominación utilizada en los esquemas formales en las armaduras de par y nudillo, en donde si las esquinas se ochavan, la armadura cuadrada se llama "ochav" y la rectangular "ochavada"
The house is distributed on three floors, with three other structural elements: central body, another located on the left and tower n, just at the confluence of the two streets that border the building.
The interior space is subdivided by the different rooms that are arranged longitudinally to both facades. As an element of connection between the rooms, a distributor corridor acts as a link zone.
As exterior decorative elements we can highlight the discreet bay in the borders, ceilings, moldings and cornices, the crowning of the tower in an ochavada shape, the hollows of the half-point windows with profile mules, glazed uprights with segmentation in several vertical parts and sticks.
Tower n is closed with an eight-water roof, with a steep eave and supported by wooden profiles, crowned in its central part by a needle.
MUNICIPALITY Santa Cruz de Tenerife
AREA Downtown Ifara District
ADDRESS N La Marina Street, 4
Suspended scope. Degree of Protection: Partial.
PGO Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Fundación Centro Internacional para la Conservación del Patrimonio.
Casa de los Capitanes, C/Obispo rey redondo 5 - 38201 La Laguna. Tel. y Fax +34 922 601167 - Email: info@cicop.com - www.cicop.com.
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.
- General Plan of Management of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Vol. 3 Volume 3.2.1-3, file n. 59.1.
Editorial and research team: Architecture Unit of the CICOP Foundation. Miguel ngel Fern ndez Matr n. Jos Luis D will read Mart nez. Armiche lvarez P rez. Sendy Hern ndez lvarez.