Tomás Montis Lluc Darder Aldeguer (DRDR Arquitectura)   Spain   More than a hundred years old, this two-apartment building set between party walls in the old quarter of Artá has been renovated and enlarged in the wake of a painstaking detailed study focused on reusing existing elements. The project came to fruiti

LLOC arquitectes   Spain   With Itziar Lafuente and Adrián Talens at the helm, LLOC arquitectes were commissioned to build 48 subsidized housing units and an underground parking garage in the Magaluf area of the municipality of Calviá. Located in the southwestern coast of the

Javier de las Heras Solé   Spain   This residential development rises at the corner of Cuba street and Antoni Picornell square in Palma’s Es Molinar neighborhood. Starting from formal premises of orthogonality, the building presents a solid base of marés, Majorca stone, which contains

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   The Barcelona practice of Marta Peris and José Manuel Toral was commissioned by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) to build this residential complex in Ibiza. It is designed to get the best in terms of sunlight and sea views as well as to harness

08014 arquitectura    Spain   Promoted by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI), this public-housing block is located at Platja d'en Bossa, south of the city of Ibiza. Designed by estudi08014 – Adrià Guardiet and Sandra Torres – the apartment building pursues a certain degree o

Joan J Fortuny Giró Alventosa Morell Arquitectes   Spain   This residential development of the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) rises on a rectangular plot with 54 dwellings above ground – distributed in three levels opening out to terraces or private gardens – and parking underground. Adapting to the very

Ripoll Tizón Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   The building is located between the residential area of the marina of Ibiza and an area of floodable and cultivated land. The urban context is heterogeneous in character, with buildings for leisure and tourism combined with housing blocks and vacatio

Xim Moyá Antonio Martín Procopio Alfonso Reina Ferragut Miguel Nevado Carles Oliver Barceló   Spain   The project proves the feasibility of using compression structures in housing projects to activate thermal inertia as much as possible and ensure passive cooling in summer, with a heavy enclosure with low carbon footprint…

Carles Oliver Barceló Antonio Martín Procopio Joaquín Moyá Costa Alfonso Reina Ferragut   Spain   The project Life Reusing Posidonia was born with the objective of supplying verified data to the administrations responsible for regulating the environmental impact in the building sector. The model complex consists of 14 subsidized dwellings in Sant