Villa Magnolia guest pavilion, new project for El Muelle

Two exempt guests pavilions, a converted garage and a large garden as the protagonist. This is the new project of El Muelle.

The new residential project of El Muelle is really revealing, because as they claim "we like to see architecture as a living organism, capable of mutating and transforming itself, of growing and reorganizing itself in order to match the different periods of time when it functions in the service of society".

Description of project by El Muelle

Our project starts with an existing villa from the 1970s that enjoys a beautiful private garden around it and is provided on the east end with a small building used as a garage. Given the need to extend the existing home, we propose to transform the garage and adjust the garden accordingly.

We have designed two independent open-space pavilions for guests that are organized around a central core housing different services. Each pavilion opens to capture different parts of the delightful garden, as if we had created a sort of panopticon of nature.

Constructively, the extension is connected to the existing building by means of a metallic structure and the two bodies are unified with an outer thermal insulation system. The new volume built on top of the old garage is completely covered in a continuous insulating layer called S.A.T.E. A thermo-reflective roof is built in continuity with the façade, allowing for the reflection of most of the solar radiation that it receives, (> 70%), while having a high thermal emittance (> 75%).

We have also built a steel pergola in the garden that allows for a vibrant passage of light and provides a generous amount of shade for carrying out different activities.

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Interior view. Villa Magnolia guest pavilion, new project for El Muelle. Photograph by Fernando Alda

Site plan. Villa Magnolia guest pavilion, new project for El Muelle. Courtesy by El Muelle

Plans. Villa Magnolia guest pavilion, new project for El Muelle. Courtesy by El Muelle

Constructive section. Villa Magnolia guest pavilion, new project for El Muelle. Courtesy by El Muelle

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Architects

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El Muelle. Franciso Fernández Ballesteros, Arturo López Payer

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Collaborators

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Andrada Marcusanu

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Area

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129 m²

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Housing

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AM CONSTRUCCIONES

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Guadalmina baja, Marbella, Málaga. Spain

Francisco Fernández Ballesteros, Arturo López Payer. EL MUELLE

Francisco Fernández Ballesteros. Málaga, 1980.

Architect, graduated from the Technical School of Architecture of Granada. Postgraduate Studies in Urban Planning and Territorial Planning and PhD at the Technical School of Architecture of Malaga.
Since 2006 he has been practicing the liberal profession of architect, developing architecture and urban planning projects. Awarded in 2013 with the Málaga Architecture Award for the best collective housing project.

Arturo López Payer. La Carolina, 1973.

Architect. Graduated from the Higher Technical School of Seville with specializations in Urban Planning and Building, receiving the Second prize Dragados y Construcciones for the Best Diploma Project of 1998 – year from which he started to pursue the liberal profession of architect in the city of Málaga, working on residential and urban planning projects.
Professor at EADE (University of Wales in Malaga) between 2006 and 2011, teaching subjects such as Urban Planning, Theory of Architecture and Architectural Projects.
Has received the Málaga Prize from the Board of Architects for the best single-family residence and the best private equipment building of 2009. Awarded in the social housing competition of the IMV of Malaga in 2008 and won Third Prize at the Europan 8 competition in Prague in 2005.

El Muelle is an architecture studio based in Plaza de la Marina, Málaga. Consisting of a multidisciplinary team of professionals who develop projects related to the different scales of Architecture, Planning and Design, leaded by Francisco Fernández Ballesteros and Arturo López Payer.
They have received various prizes and awards such as the Málaga Prize of the Board of Architects for the Best Collective Housing project of 2013, the Málaga Prize of the Board of Architects for the Best Private Equipment Building of 2009 and the Málaga Prize of the Board of Architects for the best single family home of 2009.

Published on: July 19, 2018

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