Living between two patios. Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes
28/11/2020.
[Palma de Mallorca - Balearic Islands] Spain
metalocus, JULIO RODRÍGUEZ
metalocus, JULIO RODRÍGUEZ
The BOS Arquitectes studio has projected the Casa Lueri, two level single-family home in the Son Cotoner neighborhood, a house that wants to face a neighborhood where high-rise housing blocks are taking over the place and the population density increases exponentially.
The house is presented as a refuge from that, a quiet place against the city. The house is located in the city of Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the Balearic Islands, in Spain.
The home is located between party walls and its shape is an almost opaque prism in front of the outside, it tries to isolate itself from the chaos and noise of the city. However, the house opens with two patios, one at the entrance of the house that works as a patio of lights and an entrance of natural lighting, which connects the two heights that the house has, together with another located at the end of it that it functions as a large outdoor space where vegetation appears and serves as a resting place.
The house is presented as a refuge from that, a quiet place against the city. The house is located in the city of Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the Balearic Islands, in Spain.
The home is located between party walls and its shape is an almost opaque prism in front of the outside, it tries to isolate itself from the chaos and noise of the city. However, the house opens with two patios, one at the entrance of the house that works as a patio of lights and an entrance of natural lighting, which connects the two heights that the house has, together with another located at the end of it that it functions as a large outdoor space where vegetation appears and serves as a resting place.
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes. Photograph by Del Rio Bani
Site plan. Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes
Ground floor plan. Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes
First floor plan. Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes
Section. Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes
Courtyard section. Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes
Cross section. Lueri House by BOS Arquitectes
The Lueri House designed by the BOS Arquitectes studio is isolated from the outside, on the facade, there is a large white front of two heights except for the entrance, the garage, and a vertical frame of horizontally arranged slats, which allows the passage of light but not from the vision for the inner courtyard.
However, the house inside, shows sensations and different emotions connecting all the points of the house through its patios, as fundamental axes of the project.
The permeability inside the house will be the main factor of the project. The entrance of natural light in all the rooms of the house is a challenge for the architects who have known how to have in their favor when designing two patios with a great vertical development without having to open holes in the facade.
However, the house inside, shows sensations and different emotions connecting all the points of the house through its patios, as fundamental axes of the project.
The permeability inside the house will be the main factor of the project. The entrance of natural light in all the rooms of the house is a challenge for the architects who have known how to have in their favor when designing two patios with a great vertical development without having to open holes in the facade.
Description of project by BOS Arquitectes
In a context where the neighboring buildings are high dividing walls and where the neighborhood is slowly transformed to get more and more high buildings and housing density, we find this house that aims to be a refuge within all this chaos. To this context we must add two other very important variables. On the one hand, the fact of living in a city in a house with a living area on the ground floor, where privacy is highly compromised with the direct vision of pedestrians. And on the other hand, that it is precisely this façade of the street that has the best solar orientation, the south east. For this reason, the house is resolved around the patio, which allows the sun to enter, thus also ensuring privacy and creating a filter to the city. This filter between the city and the inner world is created with the transition from the street to the patio and from the patio to the house, as a way to access into the house.
Living between two patios is the leitmotif of the project. With a common space that is at the same time interior and exterior, since by fully opening the sliding windows, that interior becomes the "porch", which is so pleasant in summer. The night area is located on the upper floor. The main room communicates the bathroom with a dressing room and extends into the sleeping area. The second room through two sliding leaves can be divided if necessary. The idea on this floor is that at all times you can have visual control over the house through the patio, from many different perspectives, taking into account that the house is very small. In short, with a few square meters and a far from ideal location, a house with a spacious feeling is achieved and with all the needs covered while living in Palma.
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Architects
Design team
Miguel Barceló, Margalida Seguí.
Area
175 sqm.
Dates
2018.
Location
Mont Lueri Street 39, Son Cotoner, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
Photography
Miguel Barceló, Margalida Seguí.- BOS Arquitectes
Miguel Barceló and Margalida Seguí run BOS ARQUITECTES, an architecture and urban planning studio founded in 2016, located in Mallorca.
They believe in an architecture of principles and in its capacity for emotion. Always starting from the preexistence of the environment and its circumstances, such as views, sunlight or topography, and trying to solve the needs of the client and the program, always with solutions that involve a commitment to tradition, context, and environment.
Before collaborating with BOS ARQUITECTES, they worked for years in Mallorca and Germany. Both are architects from the Barcelona School of Architecture, and each one with other parallel training courses that complement the team.
Miguel Barceló Ordinas is an architect from the ETSAB, Master in Management and Administration of Construction Companies from the UPC. Doctoral student in Architectural Graphic Representation, Systems, and Technologies at the ETSAB, has obtained various awards such as the First Prize in the Contest of the Institutional Pavilion of the Balearic Government in the ArtCologne in 2007, Accessit Finalist of the Contest for the UN Building of the Expo Zaragoza In 2008, Honorary Accessit with the First Best Proposal with the Pavilion designed for the competition of the Premis d'Arquitectura Exhibition of the COAIB in the Nit de l'Art Palma de Mallorca.
Margalida Seguí Tugores graduated from the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona in 2015. Graduated from the Liceu de Barcelona Superior Degree in 2012 and Postgraduate in Interpretation (Transverse Flute) at the CSMA in Zaragoza.
They believe in an architecture of principles and in its capacity for emotion. Always starting from the preexistence of the environment and its circumstances, such as views, sunlight or topography, and trying to solve the needs of the client and the program, always with solutions that involve a commitment to tradition, context, and environment.
Before collaborating with BOS ARQUITECTES, they worked for years in Mallorca and Germany. Both are architects from the Barcelona School of Architecture, and each one with other parallel training courses that complement the team.
Miguel Barceló Ordinas is an architect from the ETSAB, Master in Management and Administration of Construction Companies from the UPC. Doctoral student in Architectural Graphic Representation, Systems, and Technologies at the ETSAB, has obtained various awards such as the First Prize in the Contest of the Institutional Pavilion of the Balearic Government in the ArtCologne in 2007, Accessit Finalist of the Contest for the UN Building of the Expo Zaragoza In 2008, Honorary Accessit with the First Best Proposal with the Pavilion designed for the competition of the Premis d'Arquitectura Exhibition of the COAIB in the Nit de l'Art Palma de Mallorca.
Margalida Seguí Tugores graduated from the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona in 2015. Graduated from the Liceu de Barcelona Superior Degree in 2012 and Postgraduate in Interpretation (Transverse Flute) at the CSMA in Zaragoza.
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