The winner of the FAD Interior Design Award 2018 was the Mallorcan studio for the reform of the existing building in Can Picafort to house tourist apartments in the municipality of Santa Margarita.

The Mallorcan studio Ted'A Arquitectes, led by Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol, has transformed the Can Picafort building to holiday apartments. The interior reform focuses on opening the space longitudinally and thus get a visual connection with the sea and the back street. An interior design that has managed to win the FAD Interior Design Award 2018.
 

Description of project by Ted'A Arquitectes

The intervention consists of the interior reform of an existing building, to transform it into some small tourist apartments.

In a passing plot, placed in front of the sea, we find a two-volume construction: one of ground floor plus one, which looks towards the sea and that is accompanied by a ground floor porch; and another one of ground floor plus two, which looks at the back street. This two-volume form, therefore, is a staggered building in descending sense towards the sea.   

In an initial state, both the accesses and stairs, as well as the distributions were appearing chaotically untidy. 

All the effort of the project centers on opening the space in a longitudinal way, so that is possible to visually connect the sea and the back street. The strategy consists in arranging and condensing all the services against the party walls. Stairs, closets, kitchens and bathrooms line up and accumulate against these walls. So the services appear as thick party walls. 

The materials with which one responds tend to the imperfection of handmade things... or should we have said perfection?

The clay as a humble and usual material. A range of different pieces gives a precise response to the different constructive needs. The “Termoarcilla”, placed on edge, shows its condition: it’s not a bearing wall, nor an acoustic one. “Termoarcilla” modulates, characterizes and dresses in a semperian manner, the main space. The tile covers, sometimes the pavement, with a very wide joint, sometimes the walls, with a narrower joint. The glazed tile sometimes also protects the water surfaces. In some points the tile protects of the oxide coming from the iron rails. The residue of crushed “colombrins” can be used as clay gravel. And a long etcetera. Due to the accumulation of small and different pieces, as well as the slight changes in the tone of the clay, we think that the materialization reduces the scale and manages to define a more domestic and human space.

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Architects
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TEd’A arquitectes. Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol
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Collaborators
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Toni Ramis and Tomeu Mateu
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Technical architect
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Guillem Mas
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Promoter
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Es Roure Sec
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Area
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398,50 sqm
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C. Felicià Fuster, 37. Can Picafort. Sta Margalida. Mallorca
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Design.- 2013 - 2014. Construction.- 2015 – 2017
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TEd'A arquitectes is a small studio located in Mallorca and consists for Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol.

Irene Pérez (1976). Architect for the ETSA Vallés (2001). Woodcock Oldemburg Workshop (1998), scholarship studies at the Faculty of Roma Tre (1999). Collaborates in the Pérez-Moré arquitectes (1999-2001) and Joan Pascual arquitecte (2001-2004) studies.

Jaume Mayol (1976). Architect by ETSA Vallés (2000). architect Doctor cum laude from the UPC, with the thesis School architecture Guillem Forteza (1917-1943), directed by Josep Quetglas. He collaborates in studies of Batlle i Roig (1999-2000) i RCR arquitectes (2000-2001). Assistant Professor of the Master "Architecture: Critical and project" UPC, 2003. Professor Fellow at the ETSA Vallés, 2003-2004. Reader professor credited as the AQU Catalonia (2011). Professor summer course "thousand pedreres". Professor of Projects and Design Studio in school IE Madrid (2011-2014).
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Published on: June 13, 2018
Cite: "Reimagining use for ceramics. Can Picafort by TEd’A arquitectes" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/reimagining-use-ceramics-can-picafort-teda-arquitectes> ISSN 1139-6415
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