Architect in Moraira, Costa Blanca

Moraira belongs to the municipality of Teulada

Moraira is not a municipality of its own. It belongs to Teulada, and you only notice that once you start to build. The building permit is applied for at the town hall of Teulada, and the rules for your plot — what you may build, how high, how close to the boundary — come from that municipality's planning scheme. Anyone who has built in Jávea or Benissa before cannot simply carry that experience across: the rules differ from one municipality to the next.

We have worked on this coast since 2007 and we know the order in which such an application is handled, which departments are involved and which documents belong with it. That does not make a permit come through faster than it does, but it usually prevents you from having to supply documents halfway that should have been there from the start.

The plot decides the design

The plots in Moraira are largely on a slope. That difference in height is not a problem to be levelled away but the starting point of the design: it decides where the house sits, how you arrive, where the garage goes and which part of the view actually comes into the house.

At Villa El Portet the house steps down with the slope in compact volumes, with the garage and the lower floors taken up into natural stone retaining walls. At Casa Eucaliptus the difference in height is resolved with terraces at different levels. At Casa Pintor Gris the opposite was done and everything sits on one floor, with a level transition onto the terrace.

Orientation, sun and wind play their part as well, and the question of how much privacy you want towards the street while the house opens completely towards the garden. On every plot that balance comes out differently.

Homes in Moraira

Villa El Portet, Villa Melocotonero, Villa Mar de Japón, Casa Pintor Gris and Casa Eucaliptus are in Moraira: four new-build houses and one full renovation of a house from the nineteen-seventies.

The projects page shows what was done on each of them and how they look.

Before you buy a plot

We are glad to look at a plot before you buy. We study what the planning scheme allows on that plot and what the ground itself asks for, so that you know what you are buying. The legal study and the search in the land registry — ownership and charges — is for your lawyer, with whom we usually work together.

The page why Kantelberg sets out how the Spanish system of rules and professional roles fits together.