HISPALYT ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2023-2025 – VII ROOF TILE AWARD – SUSTAINABILITY
Facing a large park, the building is located on a trapezoidal party-wall plot with an east-west orientation. The street-facing facade creates a wide porch oriented towards the views, serving as an access and social space for neighbours. The rear facade incorporates the oblique shape of the plot, turning in search of the morning sun rays and the distant views of the inner courtyard. The existing level difference between the street and the plot is leveraged to create a communal porch linked to the courtyard level.
All dwellings function similarly, with flexible rooms of non-designated use, except for the central strip where services are grouped. The rooms are offset from one another to generate diagonals that expand the perception of the living spaces. A freestanding pillar articulates this intersection, and through sliding doors, spaces can be communicated or isolated from the rest of the house.
The search for a lower environmental impact and the recovery of the collective imagination of Mallorcan society are materialised in a building envelope that pays tribute to traditional crafts. While marès sandstone resolves the unique points of the facade and the pillars to bind the building with the landscape, the roof plane becomes a key piece of this local reinterpretation.
To achieve this, a ventilated pitched roof was constructed by installing the C-50.21 Celler format curved roof tile by Tejas Borja in a marbled white finish. This choice not only responds to criteria of high thermal efficiency and durability, but also to a strong aesthetic intent: the geometric arrangement of the ceramic pieces generates a visual play of wavy lines that endows the horizontal plane with dynamism, volume, and texture. Likewise, the subtle marbled white finish dialogues harmoniously with the Mediterranean light and the purity of the marès stone, achieving a fluid transition between the island’s ceramic tradition and new industrialised, sustainable construction systems.
Architecture Studio: Estruch Martorell Arquitectes, Estudi E. Torres Pujol, and Ripoll Tizón Arquitectes
Photographs: José Hevia, Jaume Martorell, Joan Cantallops
