Torremolinos (Málaga), Spain

Oceanika

(Hotels and residences) (Hotels and residences)
2022-2025

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Bioclimatic design that renaturalises and revitalises the urban environment.

The project is located in an area with fragmented land use and low environmental quality, surrounded by infrastructures such as a road, a railway line and commercial areas, which generates an urban void with little landscape and ecological integration. To mitigate these effects, a strategy has been designed that takes advantage of the optimal solar orientation and views of the sea and the Sierra de Mijas.

The commercial area is located in the northern part, acting as an acoustic barrier for the hotel area, which is located in the southern part, where the visual and sunlight conditions are more favourable. The zigzag arrangement of the hotel façade generates landscaped courtyards that separate the commercial area, improve ventilation and natural lighting and provide acoustic insulation. The hotel building is composed of repetitive modules that rotate strategically to maximise views and solar exposure, with corner terraces that improve ventilation and natural lighting.

The common areas include reception, coworking, communal kitchen, gym, social lounge and laundry, complemented by outdoor spaces such as gardens, swimming pool, picnic areas with barbecue, playground and outdoor coworking under a pergola. The proposal incorporates bioclimatic strategies such as overhangs and louvres for solar protection, cross ventilation and the integration of wet and cool areas to improve thermal comfort. In addition, the landscaping is based on native vegetation adapted to the climate of the Costa del Sol, contributing to sustainability and harmony with the environment.
Oceanika not only redefines the urban landscape, but also sets a benchmark in sustainable and resilient regeneration. Through innovative design strategies, it creates a scalable model that can be adapted to diverse building typologies and urban contexts.

SUSTAINABILITY
The project uses passive design strategies and has a BREEAM "Very Good" certification.
The concepts applied focus on the following points: carbon capture (due to the use of wood in its structure, which retains 3,200 tons of CO2), energy efficiency (a high-performance envelope, LED lighting, aerothermal energy and photovoltaic panels are incorporated), water efficiency (native vegetation is used with the intention of eliminating water consumption for irrigation and draining pavements are used to maintain the aquifers) and biodiversity (insect hotels are incorporated to recover the ecosystem).

Project

Oceanika

Authors

Bakpak + EOVASTUDIO

Location

Torremolinos (Málaga), Spain

Customer

Nuovit Homes

Year

2022-2025

State

Under construction (1st prize in a restricted competition).

Programme

Hotel-Apartment / Commercial / Parking

Surface

14.823 m2 above ground level and 6000 m2 below ground level

Partners

Engineering companies: Egoin (Wood) / Arpe Instalaciones + CD Ingeniería (Installations) / Estudio Duarte Asociados S.L.P. (Structures)

Landscaping: NOMAD GARDEN S.L.

Interior design: HMY GROUP

Photography: JAVIER CALLEJAS AND FERNANDO ALDA

The largest wooden building in Southern Europe.

Wood as a manifesto.

Oceanika stands as the largest wooden residential complex in Spain. It is not just a technical choice: it is an ethical stance. Solid wood from responsibly managed forests - transported from northern Europe to the Malaga coast - articulates a contemporary structure with a vernacular soul. Passive design, cross-ventilation, solar shading and the intelligent use of indigenous vegetation turn every architectural gesture into a climate strategy. Here, sustainability is not attached: it is structured.

Native vegetation, conscious design.

Industrialisation in the service of sustainability.

The industrialised process is not synonymous with repetition, but with excellence. Each element has been prefabricated with millimetric precision, dry-assembled and supervised in the workshop before arriving on site. This system guarantees efficiency in time, rigour in execution and a quality control unattainable in traditional methods. The wood, digitally worked and assembled like a Meccano on an urban scale, allows architecture to be erected with the precision of a designed object.

This industrialised, dry construction process has allowed reduce by 50 % the
Construction waste, minimise noise pollution and achieve a50% water damage% with respect to conventional construction. The precision of modular assembly eliminates waste and Reduce execution times by six months, reducing thus the
energy consumption and associated emissions from transport and machinery.

Industrialisation without losing the essence of design.

Each meeting, each joint, each anchorage has been designed not only to function, but also to excite. The assembly system reveals a transparent constructive logic, where technique and expression coexist. Structural modulation becomes architectural rhythm; repetition becomes beauty. Industrialisation, here, does not mean standardisation: it means building with an attention to detail that dignifies every centimetre built.