Everything
El Soco

What the wall encloses

Three whitewashed volcanic-stone buildings and four keys: La Casa Madre (four beds or two apartments), Casita del Estanque (two beds beside the lava spa pond), Casita del Muro (a studio with its own gate) and La Pista, walled off at the far corner. A twelve-metre heated pool on its own deck. Four outdoor rooms facing four directions, so four parties can be outside at once and never see each other.

What it deliberately lacks

A street light. A neighbouring window. A lawn. An irrigation timer. A reception desk. The darkness is the asset; the black gravel is the garden; the volcano is the view. Distances stay approximate until the LZ-2 setback is surveyed and stated in metres — the brand does not print a number it has not measured.

The licence

Lanzarote has a documented history of resorts declared illegal years after completion. Canarian holiday-letting law was rewritten in 2025: Ley 6/2025 requires a ten-year building age and explicit municipal consent for tourist use. Restoring a pre-existing traditional building on rustic land — the turismo rural route under Decreto 18/1998 — is a materially different proposition from new build. That is why this plot is worth buying and an empty one is not, and why counsel's written opinion comes before any capital.

Water

There is no aquifer. Supply is desalinated mains plus a 60 m³ aljibe; wastewater is treated on site and returned to the lava gardens. The farmers' answer — black lapilli that traps night dew and releases it by day — is why the garden needs no irrigation at all.

Wind and salt

A 13-knot mean from the NNE with gusts to 27 knots, on a salt coast. Cement render diverts salt and cracks; lime render takes it sacrificially and is renewed. The wall is not a style. It is the engineering.

Subsoil and logistics

Volcanic ground is unpredictable; every connection is remote; most materials arrive by ship. The answer is to build from what is inside the boundary — basalt, picón as pozzolan, lime — and to hold a 15% contingency and a fixed-price contract on the heavy campaign. Ground survey and utility quotes come before Tranche 1.

Three build-ups

• A
  Restored finca wall · 600 mm

  The existing lava masonry re-laid by hand, lime-pointed.

• B
  New hybrid wall · 545 mm

  Stone skin, drained cavity, wood fibre, CLT, lime plaster.

• C
  Roof · 500 mm

  Picón ballast, membrane, lime screed to the aljibe, wood fibre, glulam.

Honest exceptions

The pool shell, long spans and cantilevers are tension structures and need steel or engineered timber. Steel appears only where tension appears. Every number here is a design assumption until stone samples, picón pozzolanic tests and mortar trials against actual Yaiza stone replace it — and a mason's hours, not money, are the binding constraint.