Description

Located in the emerging city of Malaga, the project is part of the Parque Martiricos regeneration plan, next to the Guadalmedina riverside, and represents the biggest change to the city's skyline of all time.

The project arose from a study of the best possible housing and hotel. Often residential towers are designed with such depth that the interior rooms end up being dark and the layout tortuous. In this case the floor plan is nothing more than a response to the best possible materialisation of the programme. This exercise led us to a branched building design whose volume emerged naturally.

Program: 

The two towers, which rise more than 120 metres, constitute a complex of 198 rental flats, 252 flats for sale and a hotel. The amenities necessary to cover the programme are located on the ground floor and on the roof floor, with swimming pools at the top of both towers. 

A white sheet.

The formal inspiration comes from studying the folds and cuts of a white sheet and the design possibilities that this simple and clean mechanism offers us... the rest, as always, hours and hours of work to develop the idea.

Description

Just a few meters from the beach, the project combines a new Skyline for Torrevieja, with an easement of views for the city and minimizes the environmental impact of the project.

Someone defined “The Lord of the Rings” like a lightning bolt in the middle of a sunny, cloudless sky. Similar is the Torrevieja project. In a town with 5 level buildings, our towers, of almost 100 meters, rise as Ikarus, trying to touch the Levantine sun.

The bases from which our towers started were very restrictive, with a very constrained capable volume that hardly gave us freedom of movement. Under these circumstances, we chose to develop a very subtle narrowing of the tower on its upper floors and we were willing to make a game of artifice at the base that would create the illusion of the Towers emerging from the basement.

The verticality of the towers is emphasized by the vertical slits and their organic skin seems to have unfolded during the growth of the same, clinging to them like a vine.

At its base, the towers continue the lines of the urban fabric and generate a link that connects the city with the coast, an ideal finish for the walk on the port. The towers have a slight vectorization towards the sea giving them the aspect of being its guardians. After many hours of work, we felt an achievement of building an icon for the city with the name of the Tower.