TM House in Palma de Mallorca

Contemporary housing, without losing its own more traditional identity.
The project is the comprehensive rehabilitation of a house on rustic land in Palma de Mallorca. Palma was the protagonist in the 1960s and 1970s of a great tourist boom, at the same time marking that time the beginning of the significant decline in agricultural activity that continues to the present day and which favors the adaptation of these farms to their use as habitual residence. The house and its agricultural dependencies were built in the post-war era of the 20th century to serve the farmland of the property. The farm buildings, still partially in use, remain in their original state, while the house had undergone small occasional interventions over the years to adapt it to the needs of the owners. The main construction is built in the traditional way, with load-bearing walls of marés (sandstone characteristic of the Balearic Islands), wooden beams and a two-sided roof. Inside the house there are several original shorings from the central wall that undermine the more traditional interior image.

The current owner entrusted us with a house where to enjoy long periods of time with all the comforts both in winter and summer, addressing the rearrangement of the entire interior space.


The first decision of our architecture office for this project is to recover a more traditional interior image in which the geometry of the roofs is easily recognizable, thus proposing the recovery in a large part of the house of the central wall typical of two-sided constructions. slopes.

Another important requirement is that the house can be used by both the owner couple and any guests they may have, even functioning as an independent house when it is only being used by the couple.


That is why a distribution of the interior program is proposed based on the two aspects of the roof.


In the south-facing area, with the best orientation and overlooking the garden, are the rooms that will be used the most throughout the year, such as the living room, the dining room, the kitchen and the master bedroom with en suite bathroom. suite room.


On the slope to the north we find several bedrooms.

It creates a single space for living, dining and open kitchen. A fireplace with two-sided glass is proposed as a separation between the living room and dining room that helps define the program. The materials used are bush hammered and brushed stone for the floor, wood and marés stone is also recovered from some of the walls as a characteristic of the construction of this area of Mallorca. The result is a contemporary home, but without losing the link with its own and more traditional identity.