El Cantal
A house cut into the hillside. Corten skin, living roof, the slope as the program.
A house cut into the hillside. Corten skin, living roof, the slope as the program.
Three principles, three responses to the hillside. The roof becomes the slope, the facade dissolves into corten, the inside opens entirely to the garden below. A house that disappears into the hill it sits on.
Designed by award-winning architects Merino & Arregui at Flow81. The home is built with acero corten hand-forged by a metalsmith in Málaga, stone quarried in Mijas, and plants native to the mountains of Málaga.
“When I first come to a plot, it speaks to me. Its orography, its rocks and its trees are certainly the starting point for the design.”
Ignacio co-founded Flow81 in Málaga in 2018 with Jose Miguel Arregui. In a few short years, their work has been recognised at the highest levels of contemporary architecture - the Green Good Design Award 2025, the Architecture Masterprize 2024, three German Design Awards in 2025, and a place on the Forbes 40 Under 40 - putting their name on the same international stage as Pritzker laureates Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects and Tadao Ando. Each prize is a quiet validation of the same conviction: that great architecture is rooted in its context, guided by emotion, and uncompromising in design.
Our process starts with a conversation, not a brochure. We live where we build.