A single-storey house opening south, with pronounced eaves, dark joinery and a porch that in summer becomes the most-used room. Casa Bona is a detached home in Pinos de Alhaurín, Alhaurín de la Torre (Málaga): a new-build house with garden and pool on a 1,381 m² plot. The brief carried a question that comes before any drawing: what ordinance N6-4 of the local plan (PGOU) actually allowed on that plot. The preliminary design was finalised in February 2020 with the answer in writing.
A detached home in Pinos de Alhaurín: the plot and ordinance N6-4
The file opens on 12 February 2020 with the least glamorous part of the job: reading the paperwork. The Cadastre’s descriptive and graphic report (consulta descriptiva y gráfica), giving a graphic plot area of 1,381 m²; ordinance N6-4 of the Alhaurín de la Torre local plan (PGOU); planning classification sheet 40/41; and the earlier planning framework (NNSS), in case anything from the previous regime still constrained the land. Drawing comes after that, not before.
The first decision to come out of it is one of size: the design uses 171.87 m² that count towards the permitted buildable area. On 1,381 m² of land that leaves most of the plot open, which is exactly the aim. The garden and the pool are part of the programme; they are not the gap left over between the fence and the façade.
The house: 174.27 m² built, plus a 13 m² porch
The day-to-day programme sits on the ground floor, opening south. A 27.88 m² living room, a 14.28 m² dining room and an 8.09 m² kitchen run in sequence towards the garden. Two bedrooms, 16.28 and 10.57 m², sit in the quieter band, with two bathrooms of 4.67 m² each and a 1.54 m² utility room. Between house and garden there is a 13.06 m² covered porch, which in Alhaurín de la Torre is the most-used room from June to September.
That adds up to 161.21 m² enclosed plus the porch: 174.27 m² built and 135.93 m² of usable floor area. The envelope combines pale mineral render, pronounced eaves and dark joinery, in an updated Mediterranean language: shade where it is needed, and a low silhouette that does not compete with the pines.
The outside was measured as carefully as the house itself, because that is where a build gets out of hand without anyone noticing: 25.00 m² of water surface in the pool, 100 m² of specialist paving and 260 linear metres of boundary fencing. The preliminary design was modelled and rendered in-house, and the February 2020 rendering was produced before the fee proposal, not after. Someone deciding on a house should be looking at the house.
Where the project stopped
The timescales offered were four weeks for the basic design (proyecto básico) and six for the construction project (proyecto de ejecución). The project stopped at the preliminary design stage. If you have a plot in the Guadalhorce Valley, the order that works is this: first the planning sheet, then the house. Get in touch with the studio and we will start there.
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Project data
- Typology: New build. Detached single-family house with garden and pool
- Use: Residential. Single-family home
- Location: Pinos de Alhaurín development, Alhaurín de la Torre (Málaga), Andalusia
- Design year: 2020
- Status: Preliminary design / architectural proposal. Not built
- Units: 1 dwelling
- Built area: 174.27 m² (161.21 m² enclosed + 13.06 m² porch); 135.93 m² usable
- Buildable area used: 171.87 m²
- Plot area: 1,381 m²
- Pool: 25.00 m² of water surface
- External works: 100 m² of specialist paving and 260 linear metres of boundary fencing
- Planning framework: Ordinance N6-4 of the Alhaurín de la Torre local plan (PGOU); planning classification sheet 40/41
- Client: Private client
- Services: Architectural design, site supervision and full project management
- Preliminary design stage (2020): Architectural design, 3D model and rendered image, and schedule of areas
- Images: In-house 3D visualisation
- Team: Juan A. Goñi Uriarte, architect (COA Málaga, reg. no. 1206) and Ruth Buján Varela, architect (COA Málaga, reg. no. 1333). Klicstudio Arquitectura y Diseño SLP
Other projects by the studio
Discover other contemporary detached houses designed by Klic Arquitectos in the province of Málaga: Casa Caliza · Benalmádena Pueblo, Casa Colinas del Limonar, Casa Pinares de San Antón and Casa Matcha · Fuente Amarga, Almogía. Do you have a plot in Pinos de Alhaurín and want to build your home? Get in touch with Klic Arquitectos.
