Located on the seafront on the cliffs of the Majorcan municipality of Calvià, the single-family house Ca na Birgit is an example of architecture sensitized to the environment and local climate. Encompassing a built area of 194 square meters, the proj
The Majorcan city of Inca boasts a new public space in the heart of its old town, thanks to a project carried out by Flexo arquitectura – a Catalonia-based practice led by Tomeu Ramis and Aixa del Rey – that was part of a municipal strategy to improv
This residential project, directed by the architect Luis Arrendondo of Oval Estudio, involved revamping a house between party walls within the historical core of Montuïri (Majorca). The plot was distinctive, presenting 5 meters of frontage to the nor
The Barcelona firm Nomo Studio, founded by Alicia Casals and Karl Johan Nyqvist, designed this one-family home on the coast of Menorca. In a single floor the house gently extends across a sloping site full of pine trees and native plants, engaging in
The site of the this project for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) is a narrow plot that was a marés stone quarry, on the outskirts of the municipality of Palma. The shape of the building, which contains eleven social-housing units, complies wit
This project for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBANI) is inserted into its urban context, in continuity with the series of gable-roof houses that are added in descending sequence along the streets perpendicular to the stream of Esporles, in the Maj
More than a hundred years old, this two-apartment building set between party walls in the old quarter of Artá has been renovated and enlarged in the wake of a painstaking detailed study focused on reusing existing elements. The project came to fruiti
This interdepartmental building of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), on its campus in Palma de Mallorca, is conceived as an efficient container of teaching spaces, with classrooms and laboratories. A compact floor plan, a systematized env
With breathtaking views of the bay of Palma, this terraced house is located in the upper part of the plot, adapting to the sloping topography of the land through different levels. Three courtyards are introduced in the facade as transitional spaces b
This residential development rises at the corner of Cuba street and Antoni Picornell square in Palma’s Es Molinar neighborhood. Starting from formal premises of orthogonality, the building presents a solid base of marés, Majorca stone, which contains
The Barcelona-based joint practice of six architects – Marta Benedicto, Ivet Gasol, Carlota de Gispert, Anna Llonch, Lucia Millet, Clara Vidal – built this house near the port of Mahón, on the island of Menorca. Different volumes are assembled to for
The Barcelona practice of Marta Peris and José Manuel Toral was commissioned by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) to build this residential complex in Ibiza. It is designed to get the best in terms of sunlight and sea views as well as to harness
Promoted by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI), this public-housing block is located at Platja d'en Bossa, south of the city of Ibiza. Designed by estudi08014 – Adrià Guardiet and Sandra Torres – the apartment building pursues a certain degree o
This residential development of the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) rises on a rectangular plot with 54 dwellings above ground – distributed in three levels opening out to terraces or private gardens – and parking underground. Adapting to the very
Drawing inspiration from Mediterranean monasteries, this education center for the 3-8 age range is organized around an inner courtyard. Establishing a dialogue between nature and architecture, the first phase of the project presents exterior and inte
The building is located between the residential area of the marina of Ibiza and an area of floodable and cultivated land. The urban context is heterogeneous in character, with buildings for leisure and tourism combined with housing blocks and vacatio
In the heart of the city of Palma, at 15 Passeig de Mallorca, the massing of this residential development addresses the environment. Surrounded by buildings varying in height and typology, it uses visual continuity and local materials to insert itsel
Llubí is a small town in the center of Mallorca, 40 kilometers from the island’s capital. Its benign climate and isolated geography have allowed a local architecture based on marés, a sandstone that has its geological origin in the seabed that shaped
The project proves the feasibility of using compression structures in housing projects to activate thermal inertia as much as possible and ensure passive cooling in summer, with a heavy enclosure with low carbon footprint…
A rural plot in Formentera, one of the Balearic Islands, is the site of this project carried out by a team led by Marià Castelló and Lorena Ruzafa. With a built area of 94 square meters, the work is fragmented into three independent white volumes, re
With over three centuries of history, Bodegues Ribas is the oldest winery on the island of Mallorca. Since its foundation in 1711, its wines have been produced in Ca’n Ribas – an 18th-century manor house kept intact to date – and the lands around it,
A work of Nomo Studio, the Barcelona firm of Alicia Casals and Karl Nyqvist, this private residence is located on the north coast of the island of Menorca, in the Coves Noves development of the municipality of Mercadal. Containing a total of 360 squa
The project Life Reusing Posidonia was born with the objective of supplying verified data to the administrations responsible for regulating the environmental impact in the building sector. The model complex consists of 14 subsidized dwellings in Sant
