I love the shape that villages acquire. These are places which, instead of staying in the past, keep renewing themselves. This is why I decided to set my project in a Mallorcan village called María de la Salud. I was driven to do it because of the emotional tie that binds me to the house that I plan to renovate.
The project consists of renovating a home+workshop+shop for a young couple who work as furriers and want to combine their personal and professional life. The house is a typical Mallorcan village terraced house with a rear courtyard containing a cistern. It has single-direction wooden beam floors, sandstone walls which act as load-bearing walls, plastered in lime mortar, and Arabic ceramic tile pitched roofs.
The aim is to preserve and recover the most characteristic features of the house and adapt it to become a modern one with a new use. To achieve this, traditional Mallorcan materials were used, such as encaustic cement floor tiles in damp areas or in situ terrazzo dyed different colours. As well as bringing a sense of uniformity to the workshop and shop, this also shapes the different pieces which act as leather clothing patterns. My aim has been to integrate the different ambiences as fully as possible and create continuity between the resulting spaces.
