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CAN BORDOY

OHLAB

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Designer
Client
MIKAEL HALL
Floor area
2500.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

Can Bordoy is a small hotel with a magnificent garden located in the center of Palma de Mallorca. It is a complete renovation of an abandoned building that had been intervened throughout its more than 500 years of history. The program is intended to evoke the experience of visiting a house more than a hotel. Therefore, rather than being at a hotel reception, clients meet at the entrance hall of the house, instead of a restaurant we find a residential dining room, rooms and living rooms are like those you would find in an old house, etc. Inspired by Kintsugi - traditional Japanese technique of repairing broken antique porcelain with gold dust that does not hide the fracture- the project carefully preserves the romantic and decadent atmosphere found in the building and is deliberately contrasted with interventions and elements from different epochs. The proposal respects the existing centenary architectural crossbreeding, maintaining the traces of the past and avoiding a false recovery of a glorious past that the house never had. A series of architectural strategies were designed and developed throughout the building as a collection of theatrical and distinctive contemporary interventions in dialogue with the existing building. The eclecticism of the architecture is reflected in the furniture with pieces from very different eras and origins that coexist with contemporary furniture as a collection of beds and bars designed by OHLAB specifically for Can Bordoy.