The studio works on the Costa del Sol — Marbella, Benahavís and the hillsides above the coast. The approach there begins where most coastal building ends: with the site itself, its topography and its light, treated as the material of the architecture rather than a view to be framed and sold.
Topography is the project
The plots above Marbella and in Benahavís fall steeply toward the sea. That slope is not a constraint to be levelled; it is the section of the house. Working the ground — where the building cuts in, where it steps, where it holds the horizon and where it turns away from it — is the first design decision and the one that determines everything after it. The studio designs the section before the plan.
Against generic coastal architecture
Much of what is built on the coast is promotional: a style applied to a plot to move a sale. The studio works the other way. A house on the Costa del Sol is held to the same position as any other project — proportion and measure, light before surface, material honesty — so that it belongs to its place and its climate rather than to a market season.
Materials that age by the sea
Salt, sun and humidity are hard on buildings. Materials are chosen for how they behave over years in that climate, not for how they photograph on completion: stone, lime, timber and metals selected and detailed to weather well and to last. What ages honestly is what still looks considered a decade later.
Working the coast from Valencia
The studio runs its Costa del Sol work the way it runs its other projects away from Valencia: directed by the founders, carried by a named project leader, with regular presence on site and the same consulting engineers throughout. Distance is a matter of organisation, not of attention.
