How to make a restaurant with everything revolving around the bar? The owners of Casaamigos had in mind an open-concept restaurant, with the customer as the center of the experience and bringing the feeling of sharing a table in your own home.
Located in the heart of Malaga center, the place is located in one of the most traditional streets of the city. A multipurpose space in which there is room for everything from live music to a sponsored event or a wine tasting, becoming the meeting point for friends and good food, creating a close experience.
The design has been a collaboration between Marion Regitko Architects and UK based designers Soo Wilkinson & John Grant of Igloo Design. Their holistic approach to the interior and exterior spaces of the villa, along with the continuity of materials and finishes has resulted in a seamless flow throughout.
This is a project that appears on the seashore, near a preexistence of a protected smokestack from the beginning of the 20th century, that informs us of the industrial activity in that area, at that time the industrial outskirts of Malaga. Pairs of identical buildings were built, as if they were twins, on the seafront, like an extension of Malaga center, and converted it into a new promenade for the city, close to where the economic crisis had left the last two land plots unbuilt near the industrial vestige. Now, after more than a decade, this place is completed with two “stepbrothers” projects; by the same mother (the city plots) but different fathers (the architects of each project). The project aims to make it easier to understand the place linked to the smokestack of the twentieth century. In fact, it proposes a materiality that dialogues with it, but using bricks with a different technique, assuming a new contemporaneity and forming an abstract and massive facade in glassfibre reinforced concrete (GRC).
Collaborators: José Luis Lucas Trujillo, Architect (Preliminary Project, Basic Project, Execution Project) / Juan de Dios Tunis Jerónimo, Architect (Preliminary Project, Basic Project, Execution Project) / Antonio Jesús Fernández Tapia, Architect (Execution Project) / David García Gallego, Architect (Infographics) / Ana Muñoz Miranda, Technical Architect (Measurements and Budget) / Pedro Antonio González Garrido, Technical Architect (Health and Safety Study) / Mar Martín de las Mulas Moreno, Architect (End of Work) / José Díaz Montes, Architect (End of Work) / Ángel Aguilera Delgado, Architecture Student (End of Work) / Enrico Tossici, Architecture Student (End of Work) / Joana Medina Martín, Student Interior Design (End of Work)
Surveyor: Juan Barrionuevo Polo
Technical Consultants: Manuel Gómez Pastor (Installation) / Francisco López Julián (Telecomunications) / CALCONSA XXI SLU – Miguel Ángel Maíso Rodríguez (Estructure)
Developer/Owner: RENTURNOGA S.L.
Construction Company: Ferrovial Agroman SA
Surface Area: 6.750 sq m over ground / 4.001,70 sq m underground
Idea– Functionality. The project proposal aims to follow the tradition, very persistent in our architecture, based on a system of volumes aggregation around patios.
This typology is frequent throughout the tradition of “didactic architecture” or “teaching architecture”, where a usual typology of aggregation of new uses, was the juxtaposition of spaces around patios, united in turn by cloisters.
Álora is placed as a bow of the mountainous landscape of Sierra del Hacho facing to the coast of Málaga and the Valley of Guadalhorce. One of its Its main highlights is its Castle surrounded by an ancient Arrabal (arab quarter). The village has a rich and interesting history related to the Moorish defence against the Catholics and about the beginings of the malagueña, a kind of flamenco song.
When an amazing brand like Victoria decides to come back to its city, location becomes the first thing to carefully analize in order to achieve the dream of giving back to malaga citizen their traditional beer.
Thus, this factory is located between two of the main roads of the city, as its new entrance milestone, while ensuring a proper industrial functionality and allowing trucks flow in a very easy way. In order to build over the remaining structure of the former factory located there, a sustainable way of working was required, by combining their needs with the existing elements where urban planning and construction security become fundamental.
The design of this house is based on a very narrow and rectangular plot, semi-detached, with a quite limited area in where to build, due to urban planning conditions.
With this context, the project is conceived as a prism that is perforated in order to generate access paths and achieve proper lighting and ventilation, without compromising the privacy of its users. The purity of its volumes is transferred to materials and colours, looking for an elegant and simple image able to provide identity to this design.
The new Dialysis Unit in Hospital of Carlos Haya is an enlargement that occupies the place of the old staff cafeteria, even part of the own Hospital, where annexed rooms, such as changing rooms, toilets, storage room, repair monitors, dirty and clean offices are located. The main idea of the project is to develop all the activity of dialysis in the most diaphanous area, developing four distinct care stays, minimum, intermediate, intensive and patients-rooms. Thus, a radial composition is achieved, which is not broken in any case, as the separations are made of glass, the composition of dialysis stations is marked by the lighting and composition of the false ceiling is achieved, all this results in an open space, very comfortable and aesthetically unique and striking space, playing with a minimal numberof materials, expensive as well, combined with a few colours, taking advantage of the natural light, with special glasses.
Anytime you have to design a place to work, able to communicate its company philosophy and foster its activity development, it is an atractive and difficult challenge; but if this office is going to be your new headquarters, this challenge gets huge and powerful.
For us, this project for GANA’s new headquarters emerged full of ideas and illusion, based on a place with great location and possibilities. Features as the traditional flooring tiles from the 30’s, views to Santiago’s church, or the access from Alcazabilla street, make of this project a valuable opportunity. Thus, the key of this design is to empower the existing elements, as an oposition to the contemporary elements required for the activity itself.
This public space is located in a very special milestone, result of the confluence of the main touristic references in Malaga. The significant presence of El Pimpi, as one of the great traditional symbols of the city’s gastronomy, is joined by great examples of this privileged environment as the Alcazaba, the Roman Theatre, or the Picasso Museum.
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