In the southern part of Las Palmas, the bold volume of this university building stands out in a context defined by urban voids. The program is organized in two parts: one for departments, teaching, and administration, and the other for research. The latter determines the project’s approach. The idea was to address the challenge that open programs of this kind present: the quick obsolescence of facilities due to evolving technology and requirements. Maximum versatility is obtained through the envelope, conceived as a place through which to bring in new services from the roof, capitalizing on the meter-wide gap between the facade’s layers, a traversable space. The inner surface is massive, conventional, while the outer wall, built with aluminum profiles arranged in two modular patterns, serves as a lattice giving solar protection and a permeable image that varies through the hours and the seasons.