The detailed planning document for the plot (Estudio de Detalle<\/em>) splits its floor area into two pools: 6,285 m\u00b2 of \u201cother uses\u201d, capped at 100 units, and 5,110 m\u00b2 of \u201ccompatible uses\u201d, where the number of units is not regulated. The proposal rests on that reading, with a caveat set down in writing in the document we delivered: whether hotel use belongs in the compatible-uses pool is ultimately for the competent authority to interpret. Two further limits shaped the building \u2014 ground floor plus one, to 7.5 m, and 60% plot coverage.<\/p>\n The first decision was not to fight the topography. Five accommodation terraces sit at +86.20, +89.35, +92.50, +95.65 and +98.80 metres, 3.15 m apart, with the pool on its own platform at +83.05 and the highest roof at +101.95. Stepping cuts the earthworks, keeps the whole thing low-rise and lets almost every unit look out over the one below.<\/p>\n On that base the light-footprint approach holds: low volumes, flat green roofs, deep pergolas and through-courtyards for shade and cross ventilation, and a sequence of discovery between lobby, restaurants, spa and rooms, so the hotel reveals itself in stages rather than all at once from the entrance. Circulation cores are grouped rather than repeated on every terrace. The grid stays adjustable, so the layout can shift without redrawing the scheme.<\/p>\n Three unit types carry the hotel, each with its own terrace: a tourist-apartment studio of 35.22 m\u00b2 usable (39.45 m\u00b2 gross) and two double rooms of 24.84 and 29.27 m\u00b2 usable. Combined, they produce 204 units \u2014 104 hotel rooms and 100 tourist apartments. The +95.65 terrace is the densest, with 58 of them.<\/p>\n The mix is not fixed. Two adjoining studios join into a two-bedroom apartment and two doubles make a suite, so an operator can move the room-to-apartment ratio without touching the structure of the project. Dimensional requirements were checked against Decreto 47\/2004 for hotel establishments and Decreto 194\/2010 for tourist apartments, the two Andalusian decrees that set what may be called a room and what may be called an apartment. That operator-side reading is the same one we brought to the Kids Club at Hotel Puente Romano<\/a> in Marbella.<\/p>\n The palette is deliberately quiet: local ostionera stone, lime, whitewash, treated timber, hand-crafted ceramics and aluminium joinery in earthy tones. The interior takes its cues from the Andalusian cortijo<\/em>, the vernacular building of the Campo de Gibraltar and contemporary tailoring \u2014 quiet luxury tied to the Atlantic-Mediterranean climate of the Strait. Nothing that shouts; everything built to last.<\/p>\n The study lands at 13,082 m\u00b2 of floor area: 9,275 m\u00b2 of accommodation (71%) and 3,807 m\u00b2 of common areas (29%), covering reception, restaurant, gym, pool, wellness, administration and stores. Of that, 11,348 m\u00b2 counts against a ceiling of 11,395 m\u00b2 \u2014 99.6% of the permitted area, with 47 m\u00b2 to spare. Fine-tuned, not rounded off.<\/p>\n The work ran from June to October 2025: massing studies on 2 September, terrace layouts, a 3D model exported on 8 and 11 September, and five dated versions of the presentation up to 1 October. The project remains at concept stage: no building licence (licencia de obras<\/em>), no construction, nothing on site. What exists is a layout tested against the planning rules, which is what a feasibility study is for, before anyone commits to the scheme. If you are weighing up a hospitality project at Alcaidesa, Sotogrande or elsewhere in the Campo de Gibraltar, get in touch with Klic Arquitectos<\/a>.<\/p>\nA boutique hotel at Alcaidesa, stepped down the slope<\/h2>\n
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Where the project stands<\/h2>\n
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