The Borderline as Creative Stress: Puerto Banús, the Value of its Own

Abstract

With Postmodernism in full and suggestive birth, in the late sixties, the existing architecture and heritage of the Modern Movement is questioned. Renowned architects from amongst the most important at the time, get involved with their ideas for the Ciudad Parque de Turismo Andalucía la Nueva, located between Marbella and San Pedro de Alcántara, without success in their realization. The answers that could be considered more consistent with the architectural trends are discarded. And then, for the design of one of the main items, the marina, the eyes of a foreign dissect and extract the essence of our own, based on a vernacular consideration. We analyze here this reunion with popular architecture in which, by an apprehension of concepts and interpretation, an image is gestated with capacity to endure and gain its own personality.