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CASA PALERM

OHLAB

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Comments
Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
House
7.06
7.29
7.76
7.24
7.34
Designer
Client
SA ROTA D'EN PALERM
Floor area
180 ㎡
Completion
2019
Architects and interior designers
Quantity surveyor
Jorge Ramón
Contractor
Joaquín García Rubio
Structure
Lorenzo Croce
Landscape
Salva Cañís
Kitchen (OHLAB design) and cañizo works
Furniture
Sinks and hidraulic tiles
Some lamps
Some ceramics

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. 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.