TOURISTIC APARTMENTS

ALBORAYA, VALENCIA 2015

TOURISTIC APARTMENTS, ALBORAYA, VALENCIA. 2015
Close competition teaming up with architect Francisco Cantos launched by Altamira Real State belonging to Bank of Santander. The parti was to reuse the existing and abandoned concrete structure for a hotel at the Patacona beach to become a touristic apartments resort on 2.765 m².
The 3-storey high building keeps the original volume transforming part of the common facilities of the hotel at the ground floor to add some new apartments to a total of 32 units of different sizes all of them with viewsof the beach. The total gross area is 4.384 m². The use of large ceramic blocks for the ventilated façade renews the traditional image of the nearby buildings as well as contributes to enhance the building’s energy efficiency.