The brief was long for the plot \u2014 six bedrooms, living and dining rooms, kitchen, laundry, study, garage, pool and terraces. The clients came into the office to look at materials, with Porcelanosa in the room, before the technical design was registered with the M\u00e1laga Architects\u2019 Association and C\u00e1rtama council granted the building licence (licencia de obras<\/em>).<\/p>\n The first decision was to put the garage underground. The basement takes 266.86 m\u00b2 of the 677.88 m\u00b2 built \u2014 an open garage of 136.14 m\u00b2 usable, two stores, the plant room and the pool machinery \u2014 and none of it counts towards permitted floor area. That leaves 411.02 m\u00b2 above ground, of which 385.80 m\u00b2 are countable.<\/p>\n The ground floor is free, then, for the parts of the house that get used every day: hall, living room, dining room, kitchen, study, and a continuous run out to a 64.57 m\u00b2 pergola-covered terrace, a 49.40 m\u00b2 open terrace and the pool. The pergola was not in the scheme from the outset \u2014 the base drawing is still called \u2018version without pergolas\u2019. It came later, and it is the element that now orders the move from inside to garden.<\/p>\n A raft and reinforced-concrete walls at foundation level; above that, reinforced-concrete columns, beams and a waffle slab. The foundation and structural calculations were signed by Juan Torres Werner, an industrial engineer, with the definitive ground investigation report on the table.<\/p>\n The external walls are cavity construction (capuchina<\/em>) and the roof is flat and accessible, with a stair enclosure giving access to the plant deck above. On the plot, a continuous retaining wall aligned with the private access road resolves where the house meets the street.<\/p>\n The works were carried out by Construcciones y Proyectos RAMFRAN, with 25 site inspection records over twenty-eight months.<\/p>\n What no drawing had predicted turned up as soon as the ground was open: the actual levels were a metre below the topographic survey the design had been based on, and the external terraces had to be rebuilt. The ground and basement layouts were adjusted too, along with some window openings, but never the floor area. Changing things on site is routine; changing the floor area means going back to the council.<\/p>\n The final certificate of works was signed on 30 January 2026 and the file is now going through first-occupation formalities.<\/p>\n If our residential architecture across the province of M\u00e1laga is of interest, take a look at Villa Venetta<\/a> in Marbella or Casa Maravillas<\/a> in Benalm\u00e1dena Costa.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe garage below ground<\/h2>\n
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