Casa de las Cuevas

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Civil architecture · Year: 1923 · Authors: Miguel Martín-Fernández de la Torre

A curious youthful work by Miguel Martín following Central European compositional guidelines, from which we highlight the arrangement of the structure perpendicular to the façade, which emphasises the links with the outside, the three-sided mansard roof and the balconies.

The so-called 'Tyrolean House' is one of the most distinctive on the front line of the beach. Built before the promenade, the two staircases that led down from the large terrace on the first floor, where the dwelling was located, reached directly to the sand. Nowadays, the promenade buries the staircases and turns the first floor into "a semi-elevated loft, but that was not the solution" (José Luis Gago Vaquero).

It has undergone several interventions over the years, but even so, it is a work worth knowing. José Luis Gago argues the reason for such an original design: "Having a house on Las Canteras when there was no seafront promenade and the sand reached the isthmus was a kind of eccentricity. It was a certain whim, something fun, to go to the beach and be in an extraordinary house".

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