Located in the midled of Mallorca island, between the municipalities of Pina and Algaida, this single family house was designed by the practice of Salvà Ortín Arquitectes, led by the architects, Catalina Salvà and Hector Ortín.

The house, located on an elongated plot in a rural environment, is an excellent example of architecture that has reached an understanding of the tradition free of mimicry, in the best tradition of architects with works on the island such as Jørn Utzon (1918 -2008) or in the tradition of the vernacular in José Antonio Coderch (1913-1984).
The house becomes a vital experience of search and investigation with the daily habitat, with a great freedom of exploration on how to live contemporaneously, on how to approach the relationships between tradition and modernity, vernacular culture and modern architecture, craft construction and industrial construction.

Salvà Ortín Arquitectes designed the house structure seen in all spaces characterizing inside vision of spaces, explaining the constructive system used. The structure is defined with loading walls and slabs made of wooden beams and hollow tiles made of marès stone, supported by T or L shaped reinforced concrete beams.
 

Project description by Salvà Ortín Arquitectes

The proposal for the housing is born from the spaces and from its connection, understanding that the daily activity of the house overlaps and mixes different rooms. The dining room is considered, in double space, as the central and main space of the house. The condition of centrality will mean connecting to the majority of uses, thus articulating the living room, access to the kitchen, stairs to the first floor, the terrace on the main façade and the hall. In the same way, on the first floor the double space of the dining room organizes access to the two upper rooms and offers a study area.

The existing vegetation on the plot is intended to be incorporated inside the house by a strong internal-external relationship through the control of visuals in order to focus and frame certain interesting panoramas, such as the view of the Serra de Tramuntana or the interior visuals of the same plot, and working these visuals with large openings that introduce the landscape as an image of the house. Given the privacy premise, very important, these openings are made mostly in the back of the house, coinciding with the good views. The relationship with the neighborhoods has been minimized, placing just a few openings towards them.

The structure of the house will be seen in all cases and will characterize the image of the interior spaces explaining the constructive system used,  which will have also have a direct response in the generation of spaces and the determination of pavements. The structure is defined with loading walls and slabs made of wooden beams and hollow tiles made of marès stone, supported by T or L shaped reinforced concrete beams.

The terraces linked to the house are considered as an extension of this one, emphasizing the idea of the interior-exterior relationship sought in the project.

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Salvà Ortín Arquitectes. Catalina Salvà Matas and Hector Ortín Isern.
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Ma Sa + Consulting (structure), Carme Aguilo Mora (quantity surveyor).
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Dayrom Proyectos y Construcciones.
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Built Area .- 270 m².
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Year of construction.- 2019.
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Salvà Ortín Arquitectes. A practice in which Catalina Salvà and Hector Ortín work together since 2011, based in Barcelona and Mallorca, developing Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape projects.

They won the first prize in the Europan 15 competition at the Parc BIT site in Palma (Mallorca) with the Beginning at the End proposal in 2019 and Europan 14 at the Playa de Palma (Mallorca) site with the Agora 4.8 proposal in 2017. They also They have obtained the 2nd prize in the Riverwalk of the Riera de Arbúcies competition (2011), a mention in the International Passatges Metropolitans Competition (2015) and the AJAC X Award (Association of Young Architects of Catalonia) in the category of urban planning and unbuilt landscape (2016) for the Fòrum km.0 project in Sant Vicenç dels Horts. His Cocomo restaurant in Barcelona has been nominated for the VIII NAN Architecture Awards (2014) and the Son Mut Pool in Mallorca selected for the Rosa Barba Prize at the 9th International Landscape Biennial (2016).

Catalina Salvà Matas (Llucmajor, 1984) is an architect from the Vallés School of Architecture (ETSAV - UPC), postgraduate in Landscape Architecture and Master in Urban Planning from the UPC. She is pursuing a Doctorate in the field of Landscape Analysis and Planning in the Department of Urban Planning and Territorial Planning of the same university, where she has also been an associate professor since 2015.

Hector Ortín Isern (Barcelona, ​​1981) is an architect from the Barcelona Higher Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB - UPC) and completes his training in Portugal at the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto.
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