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House C / XStudio

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

House C transforms a minimal 32 m² apartment into a continuous, luminous interior landscape deeply connected to the sea. What was once a fragmented and irregular dwelling is reinterpreted as a single, legible space, freed from unnecessary partitions in order to allow a clear and uninterrupted reading of the whole. Only the bathroom remains enclosed, conceived as an autonomous cabin that preserves intimacy while reinforcing the perception of the apartment as a single room.

M House / XStudio

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Arenales is a central neighborhood in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria characterized by old terraced houses. After degradation, the neighborhood is clearly marked decades by being the epicenter of prostitution and drug trafficking in the city. However, it is undergoing a progressive transformation, driven by the purchase of homes by private developers. This presents an opportunity to restore the area's distinctive character.

House A / XStudio

Andreas Luco — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Located in Arucas, in the north of Gran Canaria, House A is inserted, through a contrast operation, in a plot between party walls and with a steep slope that forms part of a building plot of little architectural interest. The house is presented as a neat and simple volume that relates to its environment away from any urban reference nearby, formalizing itself autonomously, attending to other stimuli such as sunlight, the views, or the intrinsic conditions of the architectural object.

T House / XStudio

Valeria Silva — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Tejeda is a small municipality located inside a volcanic area, on the summit of the island of Gran Canaria. It is a special place, with a very steep terrain and a mesmerizing natural environment, “a petrified storm”, as Unamuno defined it. Small-scale buildings coexist in the sparsely constructed fabric, which is scattered throughout the territory as nuclei, among which some interesting constructions of a more traditional character stand out. The regulations, with more than good intentions, try to ensure the preservation of the rural character of the municipality by applying very strict parameters, which promote the appearance of folk solutions instead of the enhancement of the original elements of popular Canarian architecture.

House F / XStudio

Valeria Silva — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000

In the center of Telde, in Gran Canaria, is the historic neighborhood of San Francisco. This urban oasis, crossed by a network of irregular and narrow cobbled streets, presents a fabric that is defined by old houses between party walls, giving shape to long white walls, barely interrupted by the wooden carpentry of the hollows of the facades of the dwellings.

Naked House / XStudio

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Naked House is located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the historic working-class neighborhood of Guanarteme, which in recent years has become the victim of the unbridled urban growth of the city. This expansion has abruptly transformed the surrounding urban fabric, in which large-scale buildings coexist with humble self-built homes. The project, which is an intervention of one of these old houses, was born as an opportunity to claim another way of living, as an exercise of recovery and enhancing that which already exists and understanding the historical and cultural context in which the original architecture took place as its main asset.