Located in the Mediterranean coast, this property is the result of the family need to expand the holiday residence.

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Architects: Laura Ortín Arquitectura

Location: Torre de la Horadada, Spain

Area: 90.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: David Frutos

Constructor: Construcciones y reformas SANMARTIN S.L.

Rigger: Alejandro García

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Text description provided by the architects. Located in the Mediterranean coast, this property is the result of the family need to expand the holiday residence.We are placed in a coastal town, once a fishermen?s village that, with the arrival of tourists, it has become a tourist destination where to spend one?s holidays.
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The project takes up the flat cover of the house below. This can be found in a sequence of row blocks which once were identical, making up a simple urbanization of ?beach houses?. Today, the same that once happened to the fishermen?s dwellings has happened here. There is no sign of what they used to be.

Floor Plans

The area?s planning does not imply other architectural resources beyond the urban restraints regarding height, occupancy and boundaries. That is why the neighbors have been building their house?s covers in a spontaneous and unique fashion. Generally, they have expanded upon the aesthetic of the first floor, which in the majority of the cases was previou...