YANNA: Restaurant and hotel in Morlaco (Málaga, Spain)

Inspired in One Thousands and One Nights tales. Yanna is an urban garden which has been settled thanks to the arch system, this element invites to delve into the nature that grown in and the arches themselves. The arches position is lay out the best pictures between the Natural Park and Mediterranean Sea, avoiding visuals of higher edifications.

Yanna’s arch system is a modulation that in a structural level can carry the charges pressure into the ground. Because of this modulation, we would have an orderly and efficient irrigation system. Yanna has her own cistern /‘aljibe’/ that supplies and irrigates her. In order to be pleasant to the environment, Yanna must have her own resources and natural barriers which contribute to the climatologic conditions in a natural way. Because of this, arches are structural elements and shadow generators as well as wind filters. The garden is made up by fruit-bearing trees which are natural shadow generators and use for the restaurant’s meals. Even on the upper level, between the vaults and Yanna’s floor, aromatic herbs grow as if the garden were part of the space. The water sheets are an important element in the Yanna’s irrigation system, they provide a beautiful visual texture to interiors but specially they work as a natural thermal isolation that climatize the ambience.\nIn conclusion, Yanna is part of the mountain where she borns. Yanna embraces the nature around her, adding her own vegetation. It’s quite an experience each day, and depending of the season you visit her, she will show you a different picture and experience but always pleasurable.