irregularly stacked volumes emerge from the facade of this residential building designed by muñoz miranda architects. located on the spanish coast of malaga, and built adjacent to a protected smokestack from the beginning of the 20th century, the apartment complex references the industrial activity that once took place in the area.

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?the project aims to make it easier to understand the place linked to the smokestack of the twentieth century,? muñoz miranda architects explains. ?in fact, it proposes a materiality that dialogues with it, but using bricks with a different technique, assuming a new contemporaneity and forming an abstract and massive facade in glassfibre reinforced concrete (GRC).?

 
  inside the residential building, which is made up of 73 apartments, two courtyards are covered with a white corrugated sheet to form access corridors each dwelling. they are protected with a glass skylight, flooding the common space with spanish sunlight and mimicking the exterior courtyards that neighbour the structure.

 
 
the apartments adhere to the studio?s desire of creating a circular functional space between the living room, the terrace and the kitchen. they also wanted to give the option of incorporating the latter into the living room to create a studio-style kitchen.

 
 
the studio wanted to place emphasis on the material transitions experienced throughout the space, in particular between the ramp and parking entrance...