EKIN Value Development — Real Estate Investment and Development on the Costa del Sol, Spain

“I don’t believe investors should have to choose between making money and creating something extraordinary.”

Rodrigo Camerano is an architect, urbanist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of real estate, architecture, urban development and investment.

His career did not begin in real estate.
It began in complexity.

Across Argentina, Australia, Japan, Thailand and Spain, Rodrigo has worked through architecture, public infrastructure, transportation, renewable energy and real estate, learning how different industries, regulations, cultures and teams turn complex ideas into physical reality.

That experience has accumulated into something difficult to put into a conventional job title: the ability to see a project as a system.

Not simply a building.
Not simply an investment.
Not simply a piece of land.
But the relationship between location, planning, architecture, construction, capital, people, experience, demand and time.

His work to date encompasses more than:

Across projects involving organisations including METKA EGN, Coles Group, Lightsource bp, Sterling and Wilson Solar, Solgen Energy Group, X-Elio, Tohoku Electric Power Co., BMD Constructions, ADIF S.E., Siemens, Pensaer S.A. and the Inter-American Development Bank.

He has also led and coordinated multidisciplinary environments involving 60+ people simultaneously, negotiating and communicating across government authorities, developers, investors, private companies, technical teams, contractors and workers.

But Rodrigo does not consider these numbers the most important part of his experience.
They are evidence of something else:

scale.
complexity.
responsibility.
execution.

• ArgentinaArchitecture & Public Infrastructure
• AustraliaRenewable Energy · Geospatial Analysis
• JapanRenewable Energy · Project Development
• Southeast AsiaInternational Project Experience
• SpainReal Estate · Urban Development · Investment

Mauro leads architecture at EKIN with a conviction the industry rarely states outright: design is not a cost to manage. It is where the largest share of a property's value is created, or left on the table.

He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), graduating with the Premio Joaquín V. González for the highest academic average of his class, and completed postgraduate studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

His position is direct: good architecture is not judged only by how well it functions. It is judged by whether it becomes something people recognise, remember, and are willing to pay a premium to own. A building can be structurally sound, code-compliant, and perfectly efficient, and still add nothing beyond the cost of its materials. Sculptural architecture, done with intent, adds a different kind of value entirely.

Consider the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Frank Gehry did not simply design a building that housed art well. He designed a form so singular that it became the reason people travel to the city. Strip away the architecture, and what remains is a mid-sized site in a mid-sized Spanish port city. The building itself, the sculpture Gehry created, is what turned it into one of the most visited cultural landmarks in Europe, and reshaped the value of an entire district around it.

That is the question Mauro asks of every EKIN project before a single line is drawn: does this asset's value come from its materials, its location, or its square footage, or from the value design itself is about to add to it?

• Coastal Regeneration & InfrastructureMar del Plata, Argentina · Emisario Submarino / Ing. Alberto Baltar Treatment Plant
• Urban Mobility & Public SpaceTigre, Argentina · Vehicular and Pedestrian Planning for Tigre Centro
• Park RegenerationBahía Blanca, Argentina · Refurbishment and Enhancement of Parque Independencia
• Public Space & Urban LandmarkSanta Clara del Mar, Argentina · Rotonda de Santa Clara del Mar
• Urban LandmarkTandil, Argentina · Bicentennial Urban Landmark
• Educational ArchitectureBarcelona, Spain · New Educational Building for the Polytechnic University of Catalonia

The work has received recognition through national and international architectural competitions, spanning architecture, urban design, public space, infrastructure and territorial regeneration.

Where architectural opportunity meets the reality of local planning, regulation and administration.

Silvia works at the point where architectural opportunity meets the reality of local planning, regulations and administration. Her strength is understanding how a project can be developed within the complex framework of local regulations, identifying what is possible, what can be optimised, and where a conventional reading of the rules may leave value unexplored.

She studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla and has built her career around architectural projects, residential development, technical documentation and the relationship between private projects and local administrations, covering the complete process from initial analysis and client requirements through basic and execution projects, technical reports, valuations and certifications, to construction coordination, regulatory compliance and licensing.

Her real value lies beyond documentation. Silvia approaches regulation as part of the design problem. Rather than asking only "What does the regulation allow?", she asks "Given what the regulation allows, what is the highest-value project we can actually make happen?", a distinction that can determine whether an opportunity remains ordinary or becomes viable.

• Planning & LicensingStructuring projects for administrative viability
• Project OptimisationMaximising asset potential within regulatory constraints
• Local Regulatory IntelligencePlanning parameters, municipal requirements, processes
• Technical CoordinationDocumentation, consultants, construction companies
• Residential DevelopmentVillas, housing projects, refurbishments

Within EKIN, Silvia provides something often underestimated in real estate investment: the ability to distinguish between what appears impossible, what is technically possible, and what can realistically be approved and built.

A property is not experienced through its square metres, but through the way those square metres make people feel.

Carolina leads interior architecture and spatial experience at EKIN. Her work sits at the intersection of architecture, interior design and wellbeing, with a focus on residential spaces where materiality, light, proportion, atmosphere and sensory perception become part of the value proposition of the asset.

At the centre of her approach is the concept of Einfühlung, the idea that architecture is not simply observed, but emotionally and physically experienced. Two properties can have identical surfaces, identical construction costs and even similar locations, yet generate completely different perceptions of value. The difference often lies in what happens between the walls.

Her background combines architecture with postgraduate specialisation in interior design at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and more than two decades working across residential, commercial, hospitality and renovation projects, including project and construction management, quality control and post-sale coordination, an understanding of the complete journey from concept to inhabitation.

• Architecture & EmotionDesigning spaces that generate attachment, not just fulfil a programme
• Sensory DesignLight, material, texture, acoustics and atmosphere as active components
• WellbeingEnvironments that support physical, mental and emotional balance
• Residential ValueTranslating spatial quality into desirability and market value

Her role within EKIN is to ask a question conventional property analysis often overlooks: what will make someone not only want to buy this property, but want to live in it?

Gabriel is a designer with a builder's sense of a project's real numbers, not just how a space should look, but what it costs to get there. His experience spans the full execution of residential projects, including material and labour budgeting and quantity take-offs, the discipline that keeps a design honest against what it will actually cost to build.

That range comes from many years working as designer and site manager on residential projects across Europe and Latin America, a breadth that gives him a comparative eye few architects develop: he's seen how the same design decision plays out under different climates, building cultures, and cost structures.

Sustainability is part of how EKIN evaluates every project, and Gabriel is where that commitment becomes technical rather than aspirational. His specialisation is passive architecture in timber, light-frame construction and CLT (cross-laminated timber), built to Passivhaus and near-zero-energy standards, where every thermal bridge, every joint, and every layer has to perform, not just look finished. For clients who want their investment to reflect an environmental and ecological conscience, Gabriel is who EKIN brings in to make that real: engineered performance, not a materials list.

His conviction is backed by published research, not just preference. Studies from the University of British Columbia and FPInnovations, Austria's Joanneum Research, and Chiba University in Japan have independently shown that visual and physical contact with timber measurably lowers the body's stress response, steadies heart rate, and calms the nervous system in ways few other materials do.

For EKIN, that becomes a practical argument, not only an aesthetic one: timber regulates humidity and air quality, feels warm to the touch without absorbing heat, restores mental focus after use, and supports better sleep through the natural compounds untreated woods like cedar and pine release. Where Mauro asks what a building's form is worth, Gabriel asks what its materials are worth to the person living inside it.