Eco Poiesis urbana begins with a question about the main resource of Marbella. The project reads the territory through its metabolic processes and economic pressures, understanding land value not as an abstract condition but as something dependent on a complex set of natural, urban and social systems.

The research focuses on Banana Beach, one of the most visible buildings connected to Marbella's urban corruption scandals of the early 2000s. Built on protected green land on the beachfront, the building remains in place decades later, caught between legal conflict, environmental damage, private ownership and municipal debt.

Rather than accepting demolition as the only possible response, the proposal asks whether the resources already invested in the building can be redirected. The intervention is conceived as a form of ecological, social and economic compensation: a way of renegotiating the relationships between the existing architecture, the city, the coast and the agents that inhabit or affect the site.

The project concentrates real-estate value within the existing structure in order to release the surrounding intervention from speculative pressure. This strategy finances the renaturalisation of the environment, supports the operational sustainability of the building and introduces new public programmes for civic, cultural and social use.

Architecturally, the proposal adds a lightweight tectonic layer over the existing structure. A metal roof, modular systems, suspended facades, walkways, productive surfaces, water treatment, photovoltaic energy, geothermal climate systems and adaptable public spaces form an urban archipelago. The building becomes less an isolated object than a framework for new relations between ecology, infrastructure and collective life.

The project uses the conflict of the site as a generative condition. By reorganising the same economic and territorial forces that produced the problem, it proposes an alternative model of urban development for Marbella: one in which the survival of architecture depends on the regeneration of the environment around it.