The Granada-based studio DTR_studio architects has completed a single-family home for second-home use. The WIIK house is located in the downtown district of Estepona, in the province of Malaga, where Norwegian clients will enjoy long periods on the Costa del Sol.

The residence is designed on a "U"-shaped plot, which directly conditions the project and the shape of the house. The house is incorporated thanks to the projection of two independent facades that face the same street. Both facades adapt to the design of the surrounding architecture without standing out too much, giving importance above all to the interior.
DTR_studio architects organizes the house into two different units, one unit is the main dwelling and the second unit is intended to be a guest apartment. The architecture inspired by the Arab style is organized as a result of the interior patios and the roof.

The role of light, water and vegetation are very important, as they give meaning to the project and create spaces to relax. Strategies are implemented to incorporate light naturally, giving it a main role in the home.

The use of materials such as concrete, wood and terracotta with "sincere finishes" is chosen. The polished concrete floors give continuity to all the spaces, the wood panelling takes advantage of the large storage lines, the terracotta injects a differentiating element and the ceiling adds a fifth façade.
 
WIIK House by DTR_studio architects. Photograph by Juanan Barros.
WIIK House by DTR_studio architects. Photograph by Juanan Barros.
 

Project description by DTR_studio architects

The firm was first contacted by the Wiik family in 2017, with the sole reference of having seen their work published on the Internet. They asked the firm to find a plot in Estepona’s downtown district, where the family, based in Oslo, Norway, could build a second residence where they could spend long seasons on the Costa del Sol. The collaboration was based on a mutual understanding of architecture and life, and the client invested their trust in the firm.

The firm found a u-shaped plot, leaving an existing house in the middle, and forming two independent facades facing the same street. That configuration allowed the architects to divide the housing program into two well-differentiated units: the main house on one side, and a guest apartment on the other. The street to which both facades open is of little interest, so the proposed facades integrate into the environment, without standing out, providing prominence to the interior.

Casa WIIK por DTR_studio architects. Fotografía por Juanan Barros.
WIIK House by DTR_studio architects. Photograph by Juanan Barros.

The project is organized around the interior patios and the roof, inspired by Arab architecture that needs to be lived, inhabited, and walked in.  The use of light, water, and vegetation will be tools that give meaning to the project. The axes of the intervention will blur the limits between the inside and the outside, take advantage of the mild Costa del Sol climate, and reaffirm a commitment to Mediterranean vernacular architecture.

A variety of different strategies will be implemented to incorporate natural light: patios, stairs-skylights, double heights, and more. The architects believe that any excuse is a good one to tame light and turn it into the true protagonist of the project. Depending on the orientation, the house will break down to enable the passage of sunlight.

The project's materiality tries to use “sincere finishes”: polished concrete floors provide continuity to all areas, wood paneling takes advantage of large storage lines, terracotta injects a differentiating element, and the ceiling adds a fifth façade.

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DTR_studio architects. Lead Architects.- Jose Maria Olmedo and/y Jose Miguel Vázquez.

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Collaborator architects.- Pablo Olmedo and Ruben Muñoz.

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Gross Built Area.- 534 sqm.

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Completion Year.- 2022.

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Estepona, Malaga, Spain.

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DTR_studio arquitectos is a Granada-based architecture studio founded in 2003 by architects José Miguel Vázquez Martín and José María Olmedo Espigares. It is an architecture studio that helps self-developers, developers and investors to carry out their residential, corporate, equipment and retail architecture projects. The firm has been awarded for the originality of its work, and for the quality of its customer service. The firm innovates through its understanding of versatility, timelessness and comfort.

Some of the ethical principles that govern the development of the firm's businesses are social responsibility, transparency and honesty, creativity and innovation, respect for family life, care for the environment, excellence at work and total commitment to clients.

DTR_studio arquitectos has been working on quality architecture since 2003, contributing projects with the utmost dedication, and making each work a commitment to quality and continuous improvement. The firm is committed to new ways of understanding the profession and construction, adapting its processes to the client's requirements.

The firm also adopts a clear commitment to the inclusion of prefabrication in the construction process, both in the implementation of elements and materials that speed up start-up, as well as in the implementation and prescription of prefabricated architectural solutions that provide the building with better quality standards.
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