The building is located on a thin strip of land that separates Lake Etán de To and the Mediterranean Sea. Nearby there is an old medieval town and industrial buildings of a large port. The architects had to somehow meet all the challenges of an overly bright and diverse environment.
The complex consists of three residential blocks connected by a platform. Its total area is slightly less than 4000 m2. The 6-storey volume adjoining the adjacent building accommodates 16 versatile municipal apartments, and two separate 8-storey volumes - 55 private apartments in two or three rooms. In the lower, two-storey part there are parking and shops serving the complex.
The blocks themselves are surrounded by balconies that are almost mandatory for Mediterranean architecture. And over the entire surface are protected by special galvanized steel rack screens. This decision allowed the apartment owners to “release” their lives beyond the four walls, while maintaining a sense of privacy and protecting them from excessive heat and bright sunlight.
The width of the balconies varies, giving the buildings an irregular, unusual, as if bloated shape. They look like giant cocoons, then like the bows of ships. And the wind blowing between the sunshade bars echoes the noise of the masts in the port.
Natural unevenness of the relief became the basis for the artificial landscape in the central part of the base of the residential complex, which made it possible to arrange parking and gardens there. The lawn, native plants and shrubs in stone tubs are interspersed with broken-stone plots and paved parking spaces. Such a fractional structure, according to the architects, resembles a drawing of a shell rock.
