Holiday Town in Marbella (Spain)

Abstract

The various buildings and installations which comprise this holiday town have been organised in the following manner: a) Residential zone, consisting of separate chalets for single families. There are 200 of these houses, and they follow four distinct designs. All of them are only meant to serve as sleeping and resting quarters, since meals are to be prepared and taken at a collective restaurant. This residential zone also comprises various other buildings that are essential for the functional effectiveness of the holiday town, namely: collective club and restaurant, reception and control quarters, commercial zone, with shops and bars, manager's house, garage-workshop and church.—b) Sports zone: there are facilities for the practise of various games (pelota, tennis, bowls, skating, basket ball and swimming). As a continuation to this there is the beach zone, which has a bar restaurant, and the necessary installations for the swimmers, such as changing rooms, showers and store room where various kinds of sporting gear for swimmers is kept.—c) Service zone, with accommodation for the staff, health centre and wastage disposal fittings.—d) Park and garden spaces extend throughout the holiday town. The architectural style is in accordance wits its situation on the Mediterranean: light, colour and the exuberance of nature have been determining factors in planning this project. Various ideas of the popular Andalusian seaside architecture have been borrowed, and in general terms the curved outline has been preferred to the straight one, since it represents and adapts itself better to the description of gentle rhythms and subtle shadows, in a region where the sharpness of light contrasts is often too violent.