The Barcelona-based joint practice of six architects – Marta Benedicto, Ivet Gasol, Carlota de Gispert, Anna Llonch, Lucia Millet, Clara Vidal – built this house near the port of Mahón, on the island of Menorca. Different volumes are assembled to for
Ca’n Terra is the house of the earth. The fruit that nature gives as a found space, which requires tillage and cultivation to imbue the received offering with domesticity. If the history of civilization has greatly evolved transforming ideas into bui
On a slope with views of the north coast of the island of Menorca sits this one-family residence built by Nomo Studio, the Barcelona firm of Alicia Casals and Karl Nyqvist. The composition of the facade pursues a reinterpretation of the Menorcan cust
With a program that can accommodate seventy resident patients and twenty users of the day center, the project takes as point of departure the idea that the centers for the elderly must be optimistic places, and proposes creating a special atmosphere
Its reduced scale does not prevent this piece from assuming a role as a referential element in the heterogeneous fabric of the Santa Eulalia quarter, in the capital of Menorca, one of Balearic Islands. The accentuated verticality of its principal ent
A house hanging over a Minorcan cove gave the architects the opportunity to review some of their own composition themes, with the ease permitted by a minor job and the freedom suggested by the adjacent Mediterranean. Their subjection by the program t
