A ruined finca in the malpaís below Timanfaya, rebuilt as four independent keys, a heated pool and a floodlit court. The first soco. The one that proves the standard.
Between 1730 and 1736 a quarter of Lanzarote disappeared under lava. What it left behind is a landscape no planning authority will ever allow anyone to build another one of — and 3.42 million people came to look at it last year.
The plot sits on its own plateau of black lapilli in Yaiza, the municipality where the earth first opened on 1 September 1730. Set back from the LZ-2 down a private track, it has no neighbour, no overlooking and no street light in any direction. Timanfaya's gates are about five kilometres away; Playa Blanca twelve; the airport twenty-five. Distances approximate pending survey.
Three whitewashed volcanic-stone buildings inside one wall. Taken whole by a company of fourteen, or let as four independent keys, each with its own entrance, terrace and parking.
4 bed / 2 bath, 240 m² — or a three-bedroom and a two-bedroom apartment. Holds the centre and the height.
2 bed, bath, full kitchen, 70 m². Sits low beside the lava spa pond.
Studio with its own private gate, 45 m². The wall is its façade.
Panoramic glass court, LED floodlit, night play to 21:00. Walled at the far corner, ≈ 45 m from the nearest bed.
The court sits outside the living compound, walled off at the far corner behind the main house; the pool has its own enclosure on the opposite side; the spa pond sits in the protected middle between the two casitas. Each key reaches its own terrace without crossing another's, and the track brings cars to a single arrival point.
Site plan · A la casa madre · B casita del estanque · C casita del muro · schematic, pending survey
Nobody shares a terrace. Four separate parties can be outside at the same time and never see each other — which is what lets the estate be let four ways without the guests competing for the same chair.
The walled arrival court and cactus garden. First sun, shaded by noon.
Lava-rock spa pond and pergolas, sheltered from the trade wind. Al soco.
Twelve metres on its own deck, solar heat pump, nothing behind it but lava.
Floodlit glass court, play until 21:00, walled at the far corner.
La pista — sunk, not placedThe court is set half below grade, its spoil bermed on the windward side. The trade wind averages 13 knots and gusts to 27: dropping the slab puts the whole enclosure in the lee, holds the fence line below the wall so nothing breaks the horizon, and leaves earth between play and the bedrooms. A soco for the court.La pista — sunk, not placed. The court is set half below grade, its spoil bermed on the windward side. The trade wind averages 13 knots and gusts to 27: dropping the slab puts the whole enclosure in the lee, holds the fence line below the wall so nothing breaks the horizon, and leaves earth between play and the bedrooms. A soco for the court. Enclosure detailing in the view is indicative.
On the plot today is the shell of a traditional finca: lime-rendered walls, a two-storey tower still standing, a collapsed roof and dry-stone corrals half-swallowed by the lava field. The tower stays. The corral walls stay.
The lava masonry is re-laid by hand and the new volumes set behind it in whitewashed lime — the island grammar protected here since 1974. Lime was local: kilns at Janubio, Órzola, Mala, Guatiza, Teguise and Tías once loaded ships with lime and salt. Milled picón and lime make a hydraulic set — the island is standing on its own pozzolan. Lime binder carries roughly 80–90% less embodied carbon than cement, before carbonation. The pre-existing building is not only the architecture. It is the planning argument.
Each tranche releases only on its gate. Nothing is at risk on the ground until the planning route is answered in writing.
| Line | Tranche | € |
|---|---|---|
| Acquisition — ruin & plot (conditional) | T1 | 260,000 |
| Main house rebuild, 240 m² | T1 | 540,000 |
| Casita del Estanque, 70 m² | T2 | 145,000 |
| Casita del Muro, 45 m² | T2 | 90,000 |
| Pool, terraces & lava gardens | T2 | 135,000 |
| Site infrastructure — power, PV, water, wastewater, access | T1–2 | 165,000 |
| Padel court, floodlighting, deck | T3 | 95,000 |
| Spa pond, pergolas, outdoor kitchen | T3 | 55,000 |
| Design, planning, legal, PM, FF&E | T1–3 | 140,000 |
| Contingency at 15% of build cost | T1–3 | 175,000 |
| Total project capital | 1,800,000 |
The list that decides whether estate 01 becomes the standard.
Ley 6/2025 ten-year rule, Decreto 18/1998 turismo rural route, and the residential fallback. Gating item.
Including the multi-use classification of the court platform.
Stone identification and picón samples to a lab for pozzolanic activity.
Four-bed private-pool villas in Yaiza, to replace the modelled €1,150.
Replace every “≈” with a measured figure.
Ricardo Gonzalez — and he can confirm exactly where it was shot.
Planning & licensing; hospitality & operations.
