Malaga in the 70s, Luis Bono de la Herrán and Luis Machuca Santa-Cruz designed two functionalist-style towers thirteen plants, supported on a horizontal plinth.
This FORarquitectura project will contain the home/workshop/studio of its founder Francisco Ortega Ruiz.
The revitalization of the house located on the eighth floor of the east tower, is projected responding to a central organization, where the daytime common areas are located in the center and the night areas around it. A terrace conceived as a hanging garden connects its social area with the urban exterior, flying over the city.
The primitive central organization is preserved, but on this occasion, replacing the partitions with ephemeral elements such as a wooden cabinet as a gallery for storage, facilities and passage between rooms and a large curtain that allows privacy between the day and night areas.
In this way, the project focuses on the search for new ways of living, generating comfortable, multiform and flexible spaces open to future distributions depending on the necessities of life. The rooms are more spacious and bright enhanced by the use of color. The exterior spaces and bathrooms are conceived as white Andalusian courtyard where ceramics predominate, which evokes the Andalusian ceramic tradition through its aesthetics and presence of water.
White, light and wash basin; picturesque Andalusian memory that merges with the aesthetics of popular architecture, clearly reflected in the central landscape mural.
Team:
Architect: FOR Arquitectura
Other participants: María Estrada Rojo
Photo credit: Juanca Lagares
Material Used:
1. Microcement floor (TOP Cret Baxab color Mantecato)
2. The wooden joinery is lacquered in RAL 1015 (this is the color code used for the rest of the lacquered materials and accessories).
3. Electronic mechanisms such as light switches, sockets, etc... in Ivory color due to similarity with the mentioned RAL (JUNG Brand)
4. Lamps from Marset Barcelona, Vibia Light, Faro Barcelona and Isamu Naguchi
5. Zara Home rugs and decoration elements
6. Dining table and chairs from El Corte Inglés
7. Modular curved sofa of our own design manufactured in Adecora (Marbella)
8. White glazed ceramic tiles from CerámicasArtecer (Seville)
9. Ceramic tile mural; design by Martín España (it is important to mention it) and made in Artecer ceramics (Seville)
10. All the wooden furniture (Wardrobes, doors, wall panels and kitchen) are of our own design and manufactured and executed by Benaldoor
11. The coffee table in the living room is an experimental design of its own based on a pigmented cement foot on which a pine wood plank rests.
12. The table and bookshelf in the study area are our own design and our own elaboration
13. Bed linen from El Corte Inglés
14. Mirror Curtains Decoration (Vélez-Málaga)
15. Vases and other decorative elements such as chandeliers, are of different origin as they are memories of past trips. Especially of the Portuguese crafts.
