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Son Buit

Palma de Mallorca

Son Buit

Palma de Mallorca

Son Buit

Palma de Mallorca

Son Buit is a historic manor house located in La Bonanova, in one of Palma’s most privileged positions. Between the Bellver forest and the bay, the property retains an increasingly rare condition within the city: that of a domestic oasis where architecture, garden, topography and landscape form an inseparable whole. Its singularity lies not only in the main house, but in the strength of the ensemble: the ancillary buildings, walls, access points, terraces and historic garden together compose a complex and layered reality of remarkable patrimonial and atmospheric value. This condition is reinforced by its highest level of heritage protection, an exceptional status that turns the intervention into an exercise in precision, care and critical reading of what already exists.

Son Buit

Palma de Mallorca

Son Buit is a historic manor house located in La Bonanova, in one of Palma’s most privileged positions. Between the Bellver forest and the bay, the property retains an increasingly rare condition within the city: that of a domestic oasis where architecture, garden, topography and landscape form an inseparable whole. Its singularity lies not only in the main house, but in the strength of the ensemble: the ancillary buildings, walls, access points, terraces and historic garden together compose a complex and layered reality of remarkable patrimonial and atmospheric value. This condition is reinforced by its highest level of heritage protection, an exceptional status that turns the intervention into an exercise in precision, care and critical reading of what already exists.

The project begins from a clear conviction: in Son Buit, the aim is not to impose a new identity, but to reveal and enhance the qualities already contained within the place. Rather than rehabilitating a historic house in a conventional sense, the proposal seeks to make visible the latent villa that already exists within it: an architecture of great presence, deeply tied to the landscape, capable of becoming an extraordinary residence without losing its historical depth or original character.
Rather than reconstructing an idealised image of the past, the intervention proposes to work with the building through the intelligence of the found condition. What matters is preserving the patina, complexity and traces accumulated over time, understanding the house as a reality shaped by successive layers. The new is conceived neither as a replica nor as an autonomous gesture, but as a precise and serene presence, able to accompany and reinforce the existing fabric through a contemporary logic.
The same approach extends to the garden, understood as a central part of the project. Its original octagonal layout and the state of abandonment in which it was found give it a particularly suggestive atmosphere, somewhere between the domestic and the wild, the cultivated and the decayed. Rather than erasing that condition, the proposal seeks precisely to draw strength from its romantic character and from the ambiguous beauty of what was found. The garden is not conceived as a green backdrop to the house, but as an inhabited landscape, capable of accommodating new uses without losing density, memory or mystery.

Son Buit

Palma de Mallorca

Son Buit

Palma de Mallorca
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The architecture therefore operates less through replacement than through editing: restoring, consolidating, clearing, recalibrating and completing. Visual axes towards Palma and the bay are reinforced, the main living spaces are placed in the most privileged positions, and galleries, terraces and outdoor salons are recovered as an essential part of a renewed domestic life. More than transforming Son Buit into something else, the project seeks to guide it towards a fuller version of itself.
In this sense, the ambition of the project is not only patrimonial, but also architectural. Son Buit brings together an exceptionally rare combination of history, protection, scale, presence and relationship to the landscape. To intervene here means to work with all of these conditions at once: to preserve without immobilising, to update without trivialising, and to project a new contemporary life from a deep respect for the irreducible character of the place.

Son Buit

Palma de Mallorca

Son Buit

Palma de Mallorca

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