{"id":13153,"date":"2026-04-06T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klicarquitectos.com\/casa-matcha-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:25:39","slug":"casa-matcha-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klicarquitectos.com\/en\/blog\/casa-matcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Casa Matcha \u00b7 Single-family home in Fuente Amarga, Almog\u00eda (M\u00e1laga)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost the whole house on a single floor, laid across three levels cut from the hillside, and upstairs only the main bedroom with its dressing room and bathroom. Casa Matcha is a single-family home in Almog\u00eda (M\u00e1laga), in the Fuente Amarga area, built across two adjoining unbuilt plots that were combined into one. The ground fell away in a slope, so the site had to be tamed before anything could be drawn: three levels, concrete retaining walls and rock fill. The design and site supervision are by Klic Arquitectos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The brief: two plots and a sloping site<\/h2>\n

The first site visit was in 2015: two adjoining plots, neither of them built on. The first job was to measure them properly. The cadastre said 7,500 m\u00b2; the topographic survey came back with 7,883 m\u00b2. On sloping ground, a difference of nearly 400 m\u00b2 is not a footnote \u2014 it changes where the house can sit and how much retaining wall you have to build.<\/p>\n

The brief was a two-storey house with a garage, a pool and a tennis court. The technical design was signed in M\u00e1laga and certified by the M\u00e1laga College of Architects \u2014 the visado<\/em>, the professional registration every project goes through in Spain.<\/p>\n

Site constraints<\/h2>\n

The ground investigation set the rules before any question of form: excavate to -2.00 m and improve the ground before founding anything. On site that improvement was carried out with the MIXPILE system, which carries its own technical approval (DIT 576R-17) and its own structural calculations.<\/p>\n

The house then bears on a reinforced concrete raft, with a ventilated slab at ground floor, concrete columns and a waffle slab at first floor. The slope was dealt with in pieces: concrete retaining walls and rock fill to form the three levels the plot now works on. The house does not fight the hillside; it settles into it in steps.<\/p>\n

The proposal<\/h2>\n

The decision was easy to state and rather less easy to fit: put almost the whole house on the ground floor. Of 319.89 m\u00b2 of enclosed floor area, 238.09 m\u00b2 sits at ground level and 81.80 m\u00b2 above it. Upstairs are the main bedroom (24.75 m\u00b2), its dressing room (7.95 m\u00b2) and its bathroom (6.80 m\u00b2), with the whole house and the landscape below.<\/p>\n

Downstairs takes the daytime life: a 42.58 m\u00b2 living and dining room, a 17.16 m\u00b2 kitchen and a 36.12 m\u00b2 games room, alongside the covered porch and the terraces, with 26 m\u00b2 of internal parking. Beyond the main volume sit the garage (30.52 m\u00b2), the plant room (20.70 m\u00b2), the outdoor pool (95.75 m\u00b2 of water surface) and a 260.35 m\u00b2 tennis court. On a plot of nearly eight thousand square metres the programme is spread out in separate pieces rather than piled into one block.<\/p>\n

On site<\/h2>\n

The setting-out record that starts a Spanish build was signed in 2019. The first stage went entirely on earthworks, the concrete retaining wall, rock fill, backfilling and ground improvement \u2014 the months that never appear in a photograph, and the ones that decide whether the house stands properly.<\/p>\n

Then came the raft, the columns and the slabs, and later the roof, which is the last documented site visit. The house is still under construction.<\/p>\n

Gallery<\/h2>\n
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Casa Matcha \u00b7 Entrance with tower, fountain and bougainvillea. Single-family home in Fuente Amarga, Almog\u00eda (M\u00e1laga).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Casa Matcha \u00b7 Rear fa\u00e7ade with pool and porticoed terraces. Fuente Amarga, Almog\u00eda (M\u00e1laga).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Project data<\/h2>\n
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  • Typology:<\/strong> Detached single-family home, new build, two storeys, with garage, outdoor pool and tennis court<\/li>\n
  • Use:<\/strong> Residential \u2014 single-family home<\/li>\n
  • Location:<\/strong> Fuente Amarga, Almog\u00eda (M\u00e1laga, Andalusia), Montes de M\u00e1laga<\/li>\n
  • Design year:<\/strong> 2015<\/li>\n
  • Construction year:<\/strong> 2019<\/li>\n
  • Status:<\/strong> Under construction<\/li>\n
  • Built area:<\/strong> 319.89 m\u00b2 enclosed (238.09 m\u00b2 ground floor, 81.80 m\u00b2 first floor); 285.10 m\u00b2 usable<\/li>\n
  • Plot area:<\/strong> 7,883 m\u00b2 by topographic survey (7,500 m\u00b2 per the cadastre), from two adjoining plots combined<\/li>\n
  • Units:<\/strong> 1 detached home<\/li>\n
  • Client:<\/strong> Private client, building their own home<\/li>\n
  • Klic services:<\/strong> Concept and technical design, and architect’s site supervision<\/li>\n
  • Team:<\/strong> Klic Arquitectos \u2014 Juan Alejandro Go\u00f1i Uriarte, architect: project author and works director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Other projects by Klic Arquitectos<\/h2>\n

    If our residential architecture across inland M\u00e1laga is of interest, take a look at our home in C\u00e1rtama<\/a> in the Guadalhorce Valley, or our work in Benahav\u00eds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n