Promoter: Iberostar | Cabildo de Tenerife
Authors: Virgilio Gutierrez Herreros, Eustaquio Martinez Garcia, Antonio Corona Bosch, Arsenio Pérez Amaral, Mark Senning, Javier Dominguez Trujillo
Collaborators (Architects): Arquiestructuras Tenerife
Collaborators (Engineers): ICA Ingenieros, Carlos Alberto Sanabria Gonzalez (Telecommunications)
Collaborators (Technicians): DD7 Aparejadores, Antonio González Méndez (Safety and Health), Francisco Rodriguez, Cesar Pérez Luis
Contracting authority: OHL
Photography: Roland Halbe
Our involvement in this project was specifically focused on defining the new hotel rooms, the furniture, the facilities, and remodelling; both interior and exterior, and the redesign of the Iballa Bar.
Regarding the rooms, we defined several intervention levels, which varied from the minimum intervention; in which, apart from structural consolidation works, we simply changed the floors, updated the installations, repainted the room and redid the outdoor terraces; to the integral intervention; in which the layouts were modified, all materials were changed, and, in many cases, rooms were joined together to obtain a bigger number of suites and junior suites.
With regard to furniture and facilities, we specifically designed a large number of items such as desks, trunks, bathroom lamps, bedside tables and reading lamps. The lighting also played a very important role. In fact, the chosen curtain was made into a paper lantern, which filters the light that is projected on the wall, starting from a cornice from which it hangs and is always placed in the facade plan.
In the restoration of the Iballa Bar, we considered giving it a 50´s cocktail bar touch, as the hotel opened up in this decade. The use of marble floors, the vertical plaster rods of the suspended ceiling and the curtains, and the use of “boiserie” (woodwork) with thin stainless steel rods in walls, reinforce this concept.