{"id":14806,"date":"2023-06-12T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T08:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klicarquitectos.com\/villa-sand\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:02:41","slug":"villa-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klicarquitectos.com\/en\/blog\/villa-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Sand \u00b7 Luxury villa in Colinas del Limonar \u00b7 M\u00e1laga"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pool raised above the garden, with a shaded outdoor lounge beneath it, and a timber lattice filtering the light at the entrance. Villa Sand is a luxury villa in Colinas del Limonar, M\u00e1laga: 700 m\u00b2 for a private developer who commissioned not one house but two, on adjoining plots. The challenge was not only above ground: a sloping site on phyllite gravels, a basement that needed retaining, and a swimming pool that had to be designed as a structural element. Work started on site in January 2025 and is still under way.<\/p>\n

The idea of the house<\/h2>\n

The entrance is defined by a timber lattice that filters the light and screens views into the house: privacy without giving up transparency. The pool is raised above the garden, freeing a covered outdoor lounge underneath \u2014 a shaded space that extends the main living room and works as a viewpoint over the slope.<\/p>\n

The rear fa\u00e7ade is built around a generous cantilever that shields it from the summer sun and lets the whole living area open up to the outside through large glazed openings. At night the lighting comes from the water and from the roof, and the villa changes character without changing shape.<\/p>\n

The brief<\/h2>\n

A Spanish limited company bought two adjoining plots in Colinas del Limonar and asked for two detached houses, processed under a single planning application. Villa Sand is one of them. Both share a separate infrastructure and site-works document, drafted by the studio itself and officially endorsed (visado), which avoided duplicating the paperwork with the municipal services.<\/p>\n

The scope was comprehensive, and almost all of it stayed in-house: basic design (proyecto b\u00e1sico<\/em>), construction project with services and structure calculated internally, a comparative tender between four building contractors, site management, and interior design. The building permit (licencia de obras<\/em>) came with a condition that meant reworking the roof: removing the eaves within the three-metre setback strip along boundaries with public land. Better to know that before drawing, not after.<\/p>\n

Site constraints<\/h2>\n

The plot measures 729.23 m\u00b2 and has a moderate slope. The geotechnical survey, commissioned from CONANMA, found phyllite gravels with an allowable bearing capacity of 3.0 kgf\/cm\u00b2 and no water table within the six-metre depth of the borehole. With ground like that, the decision was to terrace the plot into platforms, build on a raft foundation and retain the basement with reinforced concrete walls.<\/p>\n

The pool is not an add-on at the end of the garden; it is structure. It is built from 300 mm-deep solid reinforced concrete slabs with retaining walls of its own, and was calculated with its own subgrade modulus: 2,202 t\/m\u00b3, against 2,284 t\/m\u00b3 for the house raft. The rest of the house uses a 300 mm waffle slab (250 + 50) on concrete columns and walls, calculated in-house.<\/p>\n

Interior design<\/h2>\n

The interior design is the studio\u2019s own work: technical drawings for the kitchen, bathrooms, built-in and timber furniture, ceilings, lighting and electrics, plus the materials, flooring and finishes schedules. The kitchen was redesigned once the build was already under way, which is when you really find out whether a drawing works.<\/p>\n

The services sit within the same project, with no external engineering consultant: hot water by air-source heat pump, wet underfloor heating above ground and electric below, ducted air conditioning concealed in service ceilings, hybrid ventilation, separate foul and surface-water drainage, and a lift linking all three floors. External windows and doors are aluminium with a timber-effect finish, with low-emissivity double glazing and laminated safety glass.<\/p>\n

The build today<\/h2>\n

The first site management record is dated 21 January 2025, with the plot still at the earthworks stage. Since then the site visit records have been signed three ways \u2014 by the architects in charge of site management, by the building engineer (direcci\u00f3n de ejecuci\u00f3n material<\/em>) and by the contractor\u2019s site manager \u2014 and the setting out for blockwork and joinery has been signed off.<\/p>\n

The build is being carried out by Hermanos Campano, S.L., which won the tender. And one point worth making plainly: there is no completion certificate yet. Villa Sand is still under construction, and the images on this page are visualisations, not photographs of a finished building.<\/p>\n

Gallery<\/h2>\n
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\"Night-time<\/figure>\n
\"Main<\/figure>\n
\"Elevated<\/figure>\n
\"Rear<\/figure>\n
\"Exterior<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Project data<\/h2>\n