CASA PALERM

Lloret de Vistalegre, Mallorca

Casa Palerm is as an extension of a rural hotel in the countryside of Lloret de Vistalegre, in the centre of Mallorca. It is a new independent building, close to the original farmhouse, which functions as a small holiday home. The project follows a discreet architecture, being integrated within its surrounding environment and performing efficiently, both economically and energetically.

The program is resolved in one level with a compact and elongated volume with pitched roof. The width is kept to six meters in order to use low-cost beams and structure with no columns. The layout, parallel to the slope of the terrain, allows all the rooms to enjoy views of the countryside and the Tramontana mountains towards the north and take advantage of the south sun. This arrangement also favours crossed ventilations, natural lighting and the thermoregulation of the house.

Transversely, the volume is perforated by an imaginary box creating a central hole, the living-dining room. On the floor, a concrete tongue creates terraces on each side of the living space, both enlarging and connecting it to the landscape. On the ceiling, a wattle (cañizo) pergola crosses the hollow space and expands on both sides. In this way, the terraces are protected from the summer sun, and the wattle filters the light – creating a Mediterranean play of lights and shadows. The windows of this space can be completely hidden in the walls of the façade, so that the living-dining room becomes an external porch and invades the north and south terraces depending on season.

On the south terrace, the concrete tongue ends with a wide bench made of local stone marés, from where one can view the framed landscape through the big opening of the house that intentionally has a panoramic format with a cinematographic proportion (2.66:1). This ratio of the old Cinemascope evokes the personal imagery that bring us back to old movie theatres. Thus, from the south terrace we can watch the living room as the stage of everyday life – with both the fields and the Tramontana mountains panoramically cropped as a backdrop.

Towards the north, the terrace works as a podium (above the rain water tank) to contemplate the views and the pool.

Simple yet effective solutions, both in terms of design and energy efficiency, complete the house. The impact of the sun is mitigated by the wattle pergola, the Mallorquian shutters and the planting of deciduous trees provide shade in summer. Rainwater is stored in the water tank and then is reused for the irrigation of the low maintenance Mediterranean garden, the filling of the toilet tanks, and for the pool. Traditional construction details are used, as well as a palette of natural and local materials – such as rustic lime mortar plastering, reused ceramic roof tiles, hydraulic tiles, local mares stone, cane, sepi wood and artisan cement floors and sinks.

Credits:
Architecture and Interior Design: OHLAB / Paloma Hernaiz and Jaime Oliver
OHLAB team: Paloma Hernaiz and Jaime Oliver with Rebeca Lavín, Silvia Morais José Allona, Amalia Stavropoulou
Quantity surveyor: Jorge Ramón
Contractor: Joaquín García Rubio
Structure: Lorenzo Croce
Landscape: Salva Cañís
Kitchen and cañizo works: OHLAB design, Creacuina
Furniture: La Pecera
Photos: José Hevia
Awards:
Shortlisted for the FAD awards 2020
Finalists in the Hospitality design awards 2020
shortlisted in the Win`20 awards
Finalists in the Dezeen awards 2020
Finalists in the COAIB (Institute of Architects of Balearic islands) awards 2020
Longlisted at the AHEAD Global awards 2020
Honoree at the BOYS (Best of Year awards) 2020
Winners at the Archilovers awards 2020
Winners at the Dezeen awards (public vote)
Winners of the Yuanye Awards 2020
Winners AHEAD Europe 2020
Nominees at the mies van der rohe awards 2020
Finalists in the Hospitality design awards 2020
Nominees at the Archdaily Building of the year Awards 2021
Publications:
MONOCLE November 2019
AD July 2020
Metalocus July 2020
AFASIA July 2020
DEZEEN July 2020
PORTAL DE CAMPO GRANDE July 2020
WORLDARCHITECTURE July 2020
ELLE DECOR July 2020
INTERIOR.RU July 2020
MAGAZIF July 2020
ARCHDAILY July 2020
PLANETE-DECO July 2020
DECORDEMON July 2020
ARCHELLO 2020
DECORPUNK July 2020
ARCHITIZER July 2020
GOOOOD July 2020
DIARIO ARA July 2020
EL PAÍS SEMANAL July 2020
HHLLOO July 2020
DETTAGLIHOMEDECOR July 2020
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN July 2020
CORRIERE DELLA SERA August 2020
GUCKI.IT August 2020
ESQUIRE August 2020
INHABITAT August 2020
NEWSITALIANE.NET August 2020
AD RUSIA August 2020
ARQUITECTURA VIVA August 2020
ARCHILOVERS August 2020
DIARIODESIGN September 2020
TREND September 2020
SPEND IN September 2020
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN October 2020
DIARIODESIGN October 2020
DECOSFERA November 2020
SLEEPER January 2021

 

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