Moreno Peralta, a renowned architect in the Spanish landscape, gives substance to the city’s desire to create a large balcony over the sea, with a 15-storey tower with a socio-cultural vocation.
If it continues with its project, the town hall of Estepona will provide the Costa del Sol with a new lighthouse in which culture will be a key element. This is one of the strategic lines that marks the preliminary project drawn up by the architect Salvador Moreno Peralta for the transformation of a singular urban architecture, located in Avenida de España, on the same coastal front.
The development of this strip of land will allow the city of the Costa del Sol, which continues its particular commitment to become the Garden of the Costa del Sol, to have a balcony to strengthen its relationship with the sea. The intervention advocates the creation of a large pedestrian area in front of the neighborhood of Pescadores, with public squares and parks staggered between the avenue and the current promenade.
The entire operation represents an investment of around 14.5 million euros. But in this commitment to the modernization of this space on the coast, where there is also room for commercial uses, the design of a 15-storey tower (including thirteen above the level of the avenue) playing a special role as a central element, a sort of new modern beacon that will accommodate a variety of socio-cultural uses.
“Its main function is to serve as a viewpoint in its privileged location, but with a no less iconic function of representing the modern face of Estepona (…) landmark of the urban centrality that the Cultural and Social Center will have to represent” , details the town planner in the report.
Without wanting to be definitive, the team in charge of the draft puts on the table possible destinations. Thus, it indicates the possibility that the two floors below the ground level of Avenida de España could accommodate a music conservatory, with a small room for musical auditions or conferences, rooms for theoretical classes, rehearsal rooms individual and collective, and an exhibition hall on two levels.
From these two levels, on the ground floor and on the eleven other heights envisaged, uses such as a library are prohibited. The configuration of the library would leave the first floor for the storage of books; the third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors for the reading rooms, with tables and shelves; and the seventh and eighth floors for multipurpose and modular areas by means of movable partitions for study areas, exhibitions, teamwork, coworking and training and learning rooms.
The ninth floor is a technical area for installations, switches, control and possibly small storage spaces. And the tenth and eleventh floors are for the snack bar, the upper floor having a balcony on the lower floor. And above these premises, the building is surmounted from a panoramic point of view with a luminous cover stretched by cables from a central pillar, covered by a battery of photovoltaic solar panels.
The intervention incorporates a space for commercial use below ground level from the new projected viewpoint. Another of the objectives set by the editorial team is to enhance the pedestrian character of the environment, making the municipality “one of the longest walks on the Costa del Sol”, with just over 2.6 kilometers long.
To this first factor must be added the capacity that the promenade itself will have “as a balcony over the sea and not as a barrier”. The urban facade included in the perimeter of action has a length of 277 meters, of which 150 meters to the west correspond to the Barrio de Pescadores. Precisely, the development of Avenida de España gives particular importance to the strip adjacent to the balcony-terrace of the houses of this neighborhood, where a very urban landscaping is planned.
In front of this first lane passes the pedestrian lane that corresponds to the pedestrianized Avenida de España, flanked by white concrete benches and wooden slats behind which a space is reserved, on its north side, for the continuity of the cycle lane.
Source: https://www.malagahoy.es/estepona/Estepona-proyecta-faro-Costa-Sol_0_1559544272.html
