This set of 19 public houses, recently awarded the Ascer prize, was designed by the Ripoll-Tizón architecture studio. The building is located in a depersonalized urban context, an area of new urban growth located in Talamanca, near the Ibiza marina, with views of the old city.

The proposal for social housing raised by Ripoll-Tizón was raised with the intention of constructing a building whose identity is more clearly linked to the climate and way of life on the island.
The Ripoll-Tizón architecture studio projected an abstract volumetry that moved away from the symbolic, characterized by large voids open to the sky and the sun, a reading that also recalls the work of Oteiza, with a somewhat different complexity when proposing a porous building that dialogue with the sea breeze and the light of the Mediterranean, a look that took advantage of the exceptional situation in front of the old city of Ibiza.

Due to the existence of the water table, very close to the surface, the proposal avoids carrying out excavations and places the car park on the ground floor. The houses are organized into the 5 upper floors, so that they all have at least two different orientations, guaranteeing good lighting, good sunlight and natural cross ventilation. The building has an excellent energy rating (A).

ASCER Jury statement:

"Highlight the architectural quality of the proposal, in which glazed stoneware tiles with a traditional appearance are used, which gives the proposal an aesthetic warmth and high durability.

However, at the same time, it operates as a decorative system, marking solids and voids that allow ordering the architecture of the interior void that plays such a leading role in the configuration of the proposal."
 


Social housing in Ibiza by Ripoll-Tizón. Photograph by José Hevia.

Project description by Ripoll Tizón

We are located on the border between the residential area of ​​the Eivissa marina and an area of ​​floodplains and crops. A heterogeneous urban context where buildings for tourist and leisure use coexist with blocks of flats and holiday apartments. A landscape without apparent order resolved from isolated volumes of disparate images.

It is intended to flee from what the immediate environment represents and build a building whose identity is linked to the climate and way of life of the island. We look at the Ibizan country houses as an example of architecture that responds to the place: white walls and controlled openings with solar protection, porches and shaded spaces.

These constructions, which are presented as a sum of concatenated pavilions, grew over the years according to the spatial needs of those who inhabited them. This way of building, adding modules according to the programmatic needs of a house, is taken as a starting point for the development of the proposal.

Urban regulations require that the building be inscribed in a pyramidal envelope, the contour of which is determined based on its height and distance from party walls. Some of the existing pyramid buildings in the area owe their existence to this.

We propose that the built volume be as close as possible to this maximum envelope in order to release a void in the heart of the building. An interior space is generated that breathes in various directions through linked openings, patios and porches while organizing the community, circulation, relationship and access spaces to the houses that surround it.


Social housing in Ibiza by Ripoll-Tizón. Photograph by José Hevia.

Due to the existence of the water table, very close to the surface, it was decided to avoid excavations and locate the car park on the ground floor. The houses are distributed among the 5 upper floors, and all of them have at least 2 different orientations, which guarantees correct lighting, sunlight, and natural cross ventilation. The building has an excellent energy rating (A).

It is built by stacking, adding, and adding one house on top of the other, seeking to obtain a final set that is porous and permeable to light and the breeze.

A housing system is developed and a systematic grouping of rigid unit types is avoided. The proposed system, strict in the laws that govern it, gives rise to a versatile housing typology that allows the different units to adapt to the particular situations sought without renouncing the standardization of the solutions that the development of the VPO requires.

The housing typology is generated from a square-measured base module (living-dining-kitchen), to which other smaller modules are attached (extra modules for the living room or modules that contain the bedrooms and wet areas).

The different combinations of these modules according to the number of bedrooms required generate the catalogue of homes used to build the building.

As for the materials used, the use of ceramics both in common areas and inside the homes is noteworthy.

Glazed stoneware and glazed ceramics of different colours and formats are used to characterize the circulation areas of the building and the accesses to the dwellings. Smooth and square tiles of 10x20cm and 20x20cm are combined in yellow, light blue, blue and straw colours; Straw-blue 20x20cm bevel tile and light blue rectangular latticework.

Ceramic (porcelain stoneware) is also used inside the homes, both for flooring and for covering wet areas.

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Project team
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Pablo Garcia (architect), Luis Sánchez (architect), Toni Arqué (quantity surveyor), Calculation of structure.- Manuel Arquijo. MEP Calculation.- Antoni Aquilà.
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Collaborators
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Quantity Surveyor.- José Luís Velilla Lon.
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Client
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Instituto Balear de la Vivienda (Ibavi).
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Area
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Plot area.- 1,406.00 m².
Number of homes.- 19 (2 adapted).
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Competition.- 2007.
Construction site. Start.- February 2020 / Completion.- 2022.
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Location
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Calle de Xarch, 15. Eivissa / Ibiza, Spain.
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€ 2,415,930.02
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José Hevia.
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Ripoll Tizón is an architecture studio founded in 2002 by Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón.

Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón are architects from the Barcelona School of Architecture. Since 2002 they have shared a professional studio, combining the development of public and private promotion projects with participation in national and international architecture competitions.

They have won numerous awards in architecture competitions, among others, the first prizes for the rehabilitation of the Sa Vinyeta building in Menorca, the rehabilitation of the building of the Ministry of Health and Consumption and the Arquia-banking office, both in Palma, and several residential buildings of public promotion in Mallorca and Ibiza.

Their built work has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Gubbio Award for the best intervention in historic centers in Europe, the Ciutat de Palma Award in 2013 and 2019, the 2013 NAN Award for the best residential construction project, the APLUS 2013 Award for the best architecture project for housing, the 2011-13 Mallorca Architecture Award for the best residential work and the 2005-08 Menorca Architecture Award for the best work. They have been finalists in the 2013 FAD Awards, in the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2013, in the 2013 and 2016 Ugo Rivolta European Architecture Prize, in the 2013 Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Biennial and in the 2014 Mallorca Architecture Awards -2016.

Their work has been selected and exhibited at the International Architecture Biennial of Argentina 2016, at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, and widely disseminated in the main national and international architecture publications.
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Published on: November 30, 2022
Cite: "The search for the Mediterranean light and breeze. Social housing in Ibiza by Ripoll-Tizón " METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/search-mediterranean-light-and-breeze-social-housing-ibiza-ripoll-tizon> ISSN 1139-6415
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