LA BREÑA RURAL HOUSE RESTORATION

Architecture, Cultivation and Permanence on the Hillside

The intervention recovers a traditional house located within a terraced hillside property, where architecture and topography maintain a direct relationship with the former agricultural structure of the site.

The rehabilitation adapts the building for rural tourism with the minimum necessary transformations, preserving the essential organisation of the house and its original typological character.

The programme is arranged over two independent levels, allowing different modes of occupation while maintaining a unified reading of the whole.

Positioned prominently above the cultivated land, the house retains its presence as a visual reference within the landscape, reinforced by the clear volumetric expression of its built elements.

The exterior intervention restores terraces, paths and existing stone walls, reintroducing agricultural use as an active part of the project.

The former irrigation reservoir is transformed into a pool open to the landscape, introducing a new function without altering the historical logic of the site.

The project extends the productive memory of the place and translates it into a contemporary way of inhabiting the territory.

TECHNICAL DATA: Year: 2013-2014. Location: Breña Baja, La Palma. Architects: Antonio Corona Bosch, Arsenio Pérez Amaral. Client: Rosa Castro Galván. Collaborators: Arquiestructuras (Structures), Prisma Ingenieros (Installations), Grado (Hidrotermales), POA (Agronomy and Landscaping), Raquel Castro (Quantity Surveyor). Photography: Antonio Corona.