Singularidades periféricas en la Costa del Sol: La invención del paisaje y la tipología marbellí a través de la ensoñación gráfica del arquitecto Melvin Villarroel

In this paper we present a critical review of the significance of the theoretical contribution of the architect Melvin Villarroel Roldán to understand the configuration, image and idiosyncrasy of the urban and architectural landscape of the Costa del Sol. For this, we will base our discourse on the graphic capacity used by Villarroel, thanks to which he was able to define his own language on which part of the atmospheric and phenological singularity of the Marbella coast has been structured. His ability in the use of drawing, as a technical tool for the resolution of technical or spatial conflicts and, in parallel, as a mechanism from which to work strategies for the promotion and marketing of his architecture, gave him the ability to be awarded commissions that demonstrate the transformation of the landscape and the typology of this geographical place.