Integrating into the context. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
21/06/2022.
[Estepona] Spain
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66 apartments with terraces, designed by the Muñoz Miranda Studio, is a complex of houses that are distributed in three longitudinal volumes of three heights, adapted to the sloping terrain of a hill facing the Mediterranean Sea in the municipality of Estepona to the south of Malaga, Spain.
Through the displacement of the blocks and the inlets and outlets of the terraces and pergolas with exposed concrete structures, the project generates an apparent continuity of movement and a unique architecture that transmits emotion and dynamism to the users who inhabit it. The proposal is the second phase of housing development, in which the pool and gardens are shared.
Through the displacement of the blocks and the inlets and outlets of the terraces and pergolas with exposed concrete structures, the project generates an apparent continuity of movement and a unique architecture that transmits emotion and dynamism to the users who inhabit it. The proposal is the second phase of housing development, in which the pool and gardens are shared.
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla
Site plan. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
Underground floor. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
Ground floor. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
First floor. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
Second floor. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
Penthouse floor. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
Typical floors. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
Section. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
Sketches. 66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda
The scheme proposed by Estudio Muñoz Miranda allows access from the central communication cores of two buildings to the private gardens that overlook the patio. The third block is separated to free the front and make it more permeable. Within each block, the houses are stratified, as if they were exposed porticoed structures, stacking the upper floors like concrete trays.
At the extreme end of each of the three buildings, there is a penthouse formed through the flow of the slab floor toward the rear facade, bounded at the top by the structural tray, which becomes another pergola with an exposed concrete structure on the sides with the highest projection. The project is complemented by a communal swimming pool through a vertical connection by means of an elevator integrated into the rear containment of the three blocks, generating a garden space on a slope where the bedrooms of the houses look out.
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla.At the extreme end of each of the three buildings, there is a penthouse formed through the flow of the slab floor toward the rear facade, bounded at the top by the structural tray, which becomes another pergola with an exposed concrete structure on the sides with the highest projection. The project is complemented by a communal swimming pool through a vertical connection by means of an elevator integrated into the rear containment of the three blocks, generating a garden space on a slope where the bedrooms of the houses look out.
66 apartments with terraces by Estudio Muñoz Miranda. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla.
Description of project by Muñoz Miranda Studio
The 66 apartments with terraces are arranged in three longitudinal volumes with three storeys, which are broken up to adapt to the sloping terrain of a hillside facing the Mediterranean Sea. Two of the buildings fold into their central axes of communication, making them traversable, in order to fit the topography and have a view of the sea. The third block is separate, thus freeing the facade and making it more permeable. The zigzagging volumes form a residential development's second phase with a communal swimming pool and gardens. The shape of the blocks gives them movement that is also conferred, like a ripple effect, to the terraces and the running second-floor pergolas, creating an apparent continuity of movement between the flow of the buildings and the inward and outward projections of the tray-like terraces and pergolas made of exposed concrete.
Within each block, the apartments are stratified, as if the building were an exposed porticoed structure, stacking the upper floors like concrete trays. Thus, the first floor is developed with a front garden, making a porticoed porch with an exposed concrete structure. This level is raised above the gradient of the street in order to create a base using a concrete wall that contains the gardens, giving them privacy from passers-by. On the first floor, the apartments are supported by the porticoed frame structure, making extensive terraces. Regarding the second floor, the structure gives an allusion to the exposed concrete trays that form the lateral and rear projections, which become zigzagged on the main façade. The terraces are made in this way, on top of which an exposed concrete pergola is constructed, which matches the rest of the building trays, enhancing the staggered movements in the opposite direction, and thus providing different relationships with the sky. A staircase climbs from the second-floor terraces, leading up to sun decks that are independent for each apartment. On the top of each building, there is a penthouse at either end, formed through the flow of the slab floor toward the rear facade, bounded at the top by the structural tray, which becomes another pergola with an exposed concrete structure on the sides with the highest projection.
At the base of the buildings, a lengthwise underground car park has been constructed. This garage, along with private storage rooms, can be accessed directly from the centres of each block. This phase of the housing development has the addition of a communal swimming pool, reached via a lift built into the rear retaining walls of the three buildings, creating a sloping garden space that the apartment bedrooms look out upon.
The premise behind the outward appearance of the project is that the final image is the exposed structure itself, along with a single layer coating texturized with a vertical stripe and enhanced by its joints. This is thus the encapsulation of the idea: the structural trays in front of the enclosure bounded between these horizontal bands, bearing in this way all the metalwork of the bedrooms from floor to ceiling in vertical strips.
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Architects
Estudio Muñoz Miranda.- Alejandro Muñoz Miranda.
Project team
Preliminary Project, Basic Project, Execution Project, Construction Management and Construction Completion.- José C. Díaz Montes, José Manuel García Ibañez.
Basic Project and Execution Project.- Ángel Aguilera Delgado, Mar Martín de las Mulas Moreno, Enrico Tossici.
Basic Project.-Luis Iañez García.
Energy study and facilities calculation.- Juan de Dios Tunis Jerónimo.
Health and Safety Study.- Pedro Antonio González Garrido.
Measurement and Budgets.- Daniel Alcázar.
Basic Project and Execution Project.- Ángel Aguilera Delgado, Mar Martín de las Mulas Moreno, Enrico Tossici.
Basic Project.-Luis Iañez García.
Energy study and facilities calculation.- Juan de Dios Tunis Jerónimo.
Health and Safety Study.- Pedro Antonio González Garrido.
Measurement and Budgets.- Daniel Alcázar.
Collaborators
Construction Manager.- Alejandro Muñoz Miranda.
Surveyor.- Manuel Caba.
Installations.- Manuel Gómez Pastor. Telecoms.- Francisco López Julián. Structural Calculation.- CALCONSA XXI SLU. Developer/Owner.- Metrovacesa.
Construction Company.- Cartuja Inmobiliaria SAU.
Surveyor.- Manuel Caba.
Installations.- Manuel Gómez Pastor. Telecoms.- Francisco López Julián. Structural Calculation.- CALCONSA XXI SLU. Developer/Owner.- Metrovacesa.
Construction Company.- Cartuja Inmobiliaria SAU.
Area
7128.7 sqm over ground.
3082.75 sqm underground.
3082.75 sqm underground.
Date
2021.
Location
La Galera I, 2nd phase, Estepona, Málaga, Spain.
Photography
Alejandro Muñoz Miranda. Muñoz Miranda Arquitectos
Alejandro Muñoz Miranda is doctor in Architecture from the University of Granada. He won the First National Award of End of Degree granted by the Ministry of Education in 1999. He made a Research and Training Scholarship for University Teaching Staff 2000-2003 from the Ministry of Education, and a Research stay (2002-2003) at Columbia University under the tutelage of Kenneth Frampton for the development of his doctoral thesis, concluding it in 2011 under the title "The use of the technique in architectural conception: towards a tectonic ethics". He is professor of Architectural Projects since 2007 and Deputy Director of International Relations since 2016 at the E.T.S. of Architecture of Granada.
In 2000 he exhibited his work at the VII Venice Architecture Biennale under the curatorship of Alberto Campo Baeza and in 2008 he was selected for the exhibition "Young Architects of Spain (JAE-YAS)" organized by the Ministry of Housing, which has toured Europe and America. In 2013, his work was selected for the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial and he was a finalist in the IX Arquia Biennial / Thesis Competition of the Caja de Arquitectos Foundation. It is the "García de Paredes" Award for the best work built 2005-2008 by the Official College of Architects of Granada. In 2018 he published the bilingual book entitled "The space between heaven and earth" with the publisher Nobuko-Diseño Editorial. In 2019 his work was a finalist in the FAD Awards in the architecture category, in the Dezeen Awards, and the BIGMAT awards.
In 2020 it has been awarded by the Official College of Architects of Malaga with the Second Prize for the best work built 2018-2020. He has won and has been a finalist in several national and international architectural competitions. His constructed work has been published in numerous national and international indexed magazines such as Arquitectura Viva, AV, 2G, On Diseño, Metalocus, Detail, Bauwelt, Mark, Speech, Arhitectura, AIT Magazine, AMC Le Moniteur, and others, and in international books by the publishers Gustavo Gili, Pencil, Loft, Links, Daab.
In 2000 he exhibited his work at the VII Venice Architecture Biennale under the curatorship of Alberto Campo Baeza and in 2008 he was selected for the exhibition "Young Architects of Spain (JAE-YAS)" organized by the Ministry of Housing, which has toured Europe and America. In 2013, his work was selected for the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial and he was a finalist in the IX Arquia Biennial / Thesis Competition of the Caja de Arquitectos Foundation. It is the "García de Paredes" Award for the best work built 2005-2008 by the Official College of Architects of Granada. In 2018 he published the bilingual book entitled "The space between heaven and earth" with the publisher Nobuko-Diseño Editorial. In 2019 his work was a finalist in the FAD Awards in the architecture category, in the Dezeen Awards, and the BIGMAT awards.
In 2020 it has been awarded by the Official College of Architects of Malaga with the Second Prize for the best work built 2018-2020. He has won and has been a finalist in several national and international architectural competitions. His constructed work has been published in numerous national and international indexed magazines such as Arquitectura Viva, AV, 2G, On Diseño, Metalocus, Detail, Bauwelt, Mark, Speech, Arhitectura, AIT Magazine, AMC Le Moniteur, and others, and in international books by the publishers Gustavo Gili, Pencil, Loft, Links, Daab.
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