Can Lluís i n’Eulàlia

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Within a plot of approximately 5000m2, exists a stone enclosure of around 12x4m, made up of irregular thick stone walls.

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One of the façades is made of local sandstone; therefore, more fragile and thin, it is concentrated on all of the openings and irregularities. The proposal realizes two principal operations:

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The first one is to extend the enclosure until it has approximately square proportions.

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The second one is to define a covered area within this enclosure.

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So the house is able to embrace some parts of exterior space.

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So the outer space becomes domesticated, bounded, delimited.

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So the interior and exterior begin to blend together, creating in-between spaces.

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So the interior and exterior are the two sides of the same coin.

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So the different boundaries that surround the house are considered as shells that protect the inhabitant.

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This house is understood from the interior, from the inhabitant that lives there, and not from the observer looking passively at the object.

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So the house becomes a graft of the Mediterranean tradition.

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Credits

• project > TEd’A Arquitectes
• location > Sa Pobla, Mallorca (Spain)
• program > single family home
• dimension > 99 mq
• chronology > 2010 – 2012