Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos
17/04/2018.
[Palma de Mallorca] Spain
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A house that pursues the essence of Mallorca by reducing the number of materials and using the form of maximum expressiveness of each one (stone, concrete, weathered steel), so that formal richness is generated from the austere use of materials.
Entrance. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Exterior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Exterior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Exterior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Exterior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Exterior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Exterior - interior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Exterior - interior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Living room and dining room. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Living room and dining room. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Kitchen. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Kitchen. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Corridor. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Interior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Interior view. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Bathroom. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Main bedroom. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Detail. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Detail. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Detail. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Detail. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Site plan. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Image courtesy of MIEL Arquitectos
Groundfloor. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Image courtesy of MIEL Arquitectos
Sections. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Image courtesy of MIEL Arquitectos
Constructive section. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Photograph @ José Hevia
Constructive detail. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Image courtesy of MIEL Arquitectos
Axonometric. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Image courtesy of MIEL Arquitectos
Model. Casa es Carnatge by MIEL Arquitectos. Image courtesy of MIEL Arquitectos
MIEL Arquitectos has designed Casa es Carnatge with the aim of shielding the house from the 3-storey semi-detached houses in this seafront neighbourhood, it was designed as a single-storey home, with a capital H shape, consisting of two long parallel rectangles joined by a large open room in the centre.
Description of project by MIEL Arquitectos
Casa es Carnatge is a single house placed in front of the abandoned stone quarries of Son Mosson at the Palma Bay, from which draws its materiality and formal logic. Through a doble stoneskin facade we abstract inhabiting of the noise pollution from the neighboring airport and search into the Marés a way of being.
The plot is defined by semi-detached dweling of 2 or 3 floors without soul or roots, this hotchpotch born from the turistic boom of the 60`s. This surrounding cultural amnesia allow us proposing this single house as an historical catalysis of the enviroment: Quaternary sanddunes, limestone quarries, military bunkers, affectation area of the airport Son Sant Joan and nowadays Natural área of special interest at the Palma Bay
The house is generated from 2 solid and introspective objects connected by a flexible and open porch, an enviromental strategy setting up an acoustic itinerary going from the absolut hermetic nature of the bedrooms, an acoustic transition between inside and outside of the dining – living room, until the undeniable prominence happening at the barbecue platform from where the takeoff of the planes turns into a cause of sensorial celebration
The first body organizes the services offer by the house: garage, machines room, laundry, kitchen and the guest area with a doble bedroom and a bathroom. The second body contains the heart of the house, 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms of the present and future inhabitants. Between the two bodies a concrete slab draws the common and more flexible area of the house: the living and dining room, equiped with a serie of layers allowing to transform the limits between inside and outside: from total isolation (shutters + sliding windows + curtains) until the mutual immersión from the inside to the outside.
The constructive approach of Casa es Carnatge looks for the essential, reducing the number of materials participating at the equation and searching the top expressive state of each one, in such a way the matter austerity will result in formal wealth.
And is the Marés the principal actor of this house: sand brown forming an outside eroded and hightly expresive together with the rusted steel windowsills; Pure white in the inside providing wealth nuances to the soft light that contains. Two skins never touching each other, preserving the integrity of the cavity-wall facade which are composing meanwhile they talk and breathe about the place they come from: the Mallorca island. Each of the long rectangle structures is topped with a green roof.
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Architects
Miel Arquitectos. Lead architects.- Elodie Grammont & Miguel Angel Borrás.
Building Engineer
Carme Mª Aguiló Mora
Engineer
Joan Toni Mercadal
Builder
Salis Construcciones
Habitable area
205 m²
Date
2011 / 2013
Location
Can Pastilla, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Materials
Continuous concrete floor, aluminium window frames and shutters, walls made of two sheets of plasterboard, Marés stone façades and interior walls, Tres taps, Villeroy & Boch / Duravit sanitaryware, underfloor heating, green roof.
MIEL Architects
MIEL Arquitectos, directed by Elodie Grammont and Miguel Angel Borrás. They are a study based in Barcelona and Mallorca specialized in residential architecture (ranging from interior design to new buildings). Convinced that surprise is the best tool to rediscover the daily, they feed on the specifics of each client (goals, dreams and needs) and a healthy concern to innovate in each project.
They cultivate a special interest in the rehabilitation and interior remodeling, where they discover and give voice to certain energies remaining in the building and establish a dialogue with the new needs that allow them to redirect their entropy towards suggestive forms of enjoyment.
Since 2010 they have been in charge of the research project "Barcelona Architecture Walks", a tool for disseminating and analyzing Barcelona's architecture through the works of its Masters.
