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Can Bordoy Hotel

Palma de Mallorca

Can Bordoy Hotel

Palma de Mallorca
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Can Bordoy Hotel

Palma de Mallorca

Can Bordoy -Grand House & Garden- is a small 24 room hotel with a magnificent garden, swimming pool, spa and panoramic terrace, located in La Lonja neighborhood, the heart of the historic center of Palma de Mallorca. It is a complete renovation of a 2,500 m2 abandoned building that had been heavily modified throughout its more than 500 years of history. Can Bordoy has been envisioned and developed by businessman Mikael Hall and his family. The architecture and interior design have been carried out by OHLAB, an office directed by the architects Paloma Hernaiz and Jaime Oliver.

Can Bordoy Hotel

Palma de Mallorca

Can Bordoy -Grand House & Garden- is a small 24 room hotel with a magnificent garden, swimming pool, spa and panoramic terrace, located in La Lonja neighborhood, the heart of the historic center of Palma de Mallorca. It is a complete renovation of a 2,500 m2 abandoned building that had been heavily modified throughout its more than 500 years of history. Can Bordoy has been envisioned and developed by businessman Mikael Hall and his family. The architecture and interior design have been carried out by OHLAB, an office directed by the architects Paloma Hernaiz and Jaime Oliver.

One of the most distinctive elements of the property is its garden, not only because of its but because of the richness and antiquity of the existing vegetation. One of the project’s most important interventions has been opening the doors of the garden, until now unknown by the vast majority, to the city and giving it visibility from the entrance courtyard and from the street.
The proposed programme is intended to evoke the experience of visiting a house more than a hotel. Therefore, rather than being at a hotel reception, the clients meet at the entrance hall of the house, instead of a restaurant we find a residential dining room, the rooms and living rooms are like those you would find in an old house, and so on.
In order to make this operation efficient and reintegrate the buildings into the life of the city, we decided to update their spaces and use for the 21st century.
On one hand, a single building was required with modern, comfortable residences, equipped with all services and facilities suitable for a contemporary lifestyle. On the other hand, we were faced with a complex, compartmentalized structure that was difficult to adapt, with a 17th-century façade and volume—protected, extremely rigid, and hard to modify.
Furniture is a very important part of the project. The eclecticism of the architecture is reflected in the selection of furniture, with pieces from very different periods and origins. Antique pieces coexist with carefully selected contemporary furniture, as well as furniture designed by OHLAB specifically for Can Bordoy. Among the furniture designed by OHLAB, a collection of beds and bars for all the rooms stands out. Additionally, a second interior courtyard has been restored as a garden for one of the apartments, along with five rooftop terraces for different units, offering views of the city.
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The OHLAB team was inspired by the principles of the traditional Japanese technique of Kintsugi – the art of repairing broken antique porcelain with a precious material, such as gold dust, and thus obtaining a repaired piece that does not hide the fracture, but shows it and celebrates it and whose result is a piece that may have even more value than the ceramic before breaking. The architects have sought a project that does not pretend to hide the heterodox eclecticism of the existing building, but instead conciliates and celebrates the different layers of history and clearly highlights the new interventions that have been necessary to give the house its new use.

Can Bordoy Hotel

Palma de Mallorca

Can Bordoy Hotel

Palma de Mallorca
A series of architectural strategies were designed and developed throughout the building as a collection of distinctive contemporary interventions in dialogue with the existing building. Large velvet curtains disguise the new bathrooms in the rooms creating a scenography where the bathroom happens to be the new set; instead of hiding this new element, its use is celebrated. On the ground floor a green corridor of vegetation invades the dining rooms connecting the garden with the courtyard and the street. In the main staircase, the skylight is flooded with water becoming a small pool with a transparent bottom that creates a play of light through the water, flooding the staircase with caustic reflections. These are some of the strategies that make possible the new use of the house and the dialogue with the building’s history, but it is necessary to visit the building to discover them and the connections established between them.
In the stairwell courtyard, the overhead skylight fills with water, turning into a small pool with a transparent bottom that creates a play of light through the water, flooding the staircase with caustic reflections. These are some of the strategies that enable the house’s new use and engage in a dialogue with the building’s history, but it is necessary to visit the building to fully discover them, along with the connections established between them.
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Lastly, on the building foundations we find the Spa Experience. Surrounded by original stone walls from the XII century, brutalist structural reinforcements of exposed concrete, and delicate natural stone finishes, a journey of water sensations begins at different temperatures following the millenary Mediterranean bathing culture.
In the stairwell courtyard, the overhead skylight fills with water, turning into a small pool with a transparent bottom that creates a play of light through the water, flooding the staircase with caustic reflections. These are some of the strategies that enable the house’s new use and engage in a dialogue with the building’s history, but it is necessary to visit the building to fully discover them, along with the connections established between them.
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Can Bordoy Hotel

Palma de Mallorca

Can Bordoy Hotel

Palma de Mallorca

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