The design origins of this unique house in Cabo de las Huertas in Alicante (southeastern Spain) can be summarized in three short stories. The first, and most obvious, refers to the client, who dreams of swimming regularly again. That is why the first decision when drawing a floor plan is to install a 25m long swimming lane on the land plot.

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However, the second story is related to people's growing interest in PlayStudio, as they want to do a non-nostalgic REMAKE of certain local buildings, rather than the usual global, foreign and more ornate overtones and genres. We gained a new identity for the Mediterranean White Coast by re-celebrating the construction of our first and moderate modern movement, the typological standard for the city of Alicante's development to the coast in the 1960s — just as it happened in other coastal cities.
For example, making the structural grid visible and filling its cells with a full brick or lattice surface, etc., forms a strong identity in the architectural environment of the Alicante beach where this house is located, on the other hand, it shapes the daily imagination of the client.

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It was this customer's imagination that also introduced the third story. White has in fact become the main aesthetic reference of the White Coast, and over the past few decades it has seen how cubic, original and ultra-white vibes and sterile single-family dwellings are gradually built. As a result, the client, as another imagined victim, uses white as a starting condition.

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So there is an opportunity to do another study in the office: more than just white, this is a series of single-family homes built on the coast that aim to escape the original and cubic white as the default solution. That is why, in combination with the aforementioned, the white color becomes more complex and subtle in the painted structure, becomes clear, the matte brick surface, the satin woodwork or the glazed grid... are all white.

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