ENGAWA HOUSE
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.
