Our studio focuses primarily on functionality, logic, coherence, and architectural simplification for today’s contemporary inhabitant. The studio was born out of a philosophy originating from a certain complexity and disorder. Which overlap. The process consists of cleaning and ordering these layers of thought, until a final proposal is achieved which is as clear, concise, and efficient as possible. When we think about living in the present, this process makes more sense, given an architectural intervention is usually an act of liberation. It is about taking away, rather than of adding.

Thanks to a certain amount of interest in ruins, an architectural intervention applied to traditional architecture, must always contend with by an initial resistance to loss. The first visit to the site in question is always very exciting, in many ways, it’s the best of our job. Being able to access spaces that have been frozen in time, which still exude the stories of its past. Our work is always challenged with absolute respect for what already exists. We do not try to recover or manipulate excessively, nor of course do we try to imitate; it is about taking in the state in which we find the building and adding a new differentiated layer while applying a contemporary edge to it; trying to make the existing, the centre of attention, rather than the new. It is a decision and an attitude geared towards the construction process: sustainability is about conserving and reusing, generating the minimum amount of waste possible. This is how we understand and apply sustainability in our projects, in a simpler and more modest way.

The house

Located in the old historical centre of the municipality of Campos, a town located in southern Mallorca. Most constructions fall into the category of single-family homes consisting of two-story party walls. In the past, the ground floor was typically used as a home, and the first floor, as a pantry and for general agricultural purposes.

Traditional architecture retains a certain isolation from the road it’s on, something which we are interested in maintaining. In the past, this was important from an energy efficiency perspective as well as security today, it is more about privacy and intimacy. Additionally, we believe that any intervention we carry out, ensures the highest possible level of quietness and is respectful, with the key objective being not to disfigure local architecture, tradition, and culture.

The patio is an essential space of Mediterranean architecture, which always plays a central role in all our projects. One of our main priorities where we are able, is not to reduce the size of the patio, something which is of great value for a home. Given our climate, the patio behaves like another room of the house and is usable practically all year round.

Townhouses, which used to be the cornerstone of small grocery shops in the town, used to use the first bay as the shop, and the rest of the space as a home. Once part of the house stopped being used as a grocery shop, more than 40 years ago, this house remained unchanged.

In this type of architectural intervention, we always try to maintain the structure and space as it was initially. Opening, removing, or excessively modifying the original structure which consists of thick stone walls, is always complex and traumatic for the structure which we are trying to preserve. In this case, our role is primarily to organise the new project around the needs of the space itself and what existed before, and for it to be as coherent as possible - finding a balance between what is needed and what can be effectively achieved.

In this, as in most of our projects, we have worked with materials that are available to us in our immediate surroundings, such as the traditional hydraulic mosaic tiles which come from the Huguet factory located in the same town.

In the end, once our intervention has been completed, we expect to be able to showcase a completely rethought out, singular and contemporary space, which seeks to maintain and recreate the traditional Mediterranean atmosphere found in houses here which we hope will stand the test of time.

Ca sa Verdurera 房屋

我們的工作室主要專注為當代居民提供功能性、邏輯性、一致性和簡化的建築設計。工作室的理念源於整合繁雜性與無序性的過程，包含整理和排序這些思緒的層次次序，並呈現清晰、簡潔和高效的設計提案。當我們思考當下的生活時，這個過程是更有意義的，因為建築改造通常是一種重新佈局的行為。它是關於的是減少，而不是增加。

由於對傳統建築有著一定程度的熱忱，當我們進行傳統建築改造時，必須要在一開始不斷面對各方面的損失與反對抗拒的情況。對於首次造訪現場，在各方面總是令人感到興奮，這是我們工作中最美好的一部分。能夠進入那些時間被暫停的空間，它們仍然存在著過去的故事，我們始終抱持著尊重現有事物及傳統，不過度的修復或輕易改變，當然也不試圖複製原有特點；目標是要將建築現況作為主導，再添加新的細節做出差異化，同時賦予現代風格；嘗試以現有建築為焦點，淡化新設計層面的部分。這是一種對於建築過程的決策和態度：永續性是關於保存和再利用，盡可能降低所產生的廢棄物，是我們在項目中以更簡單、謙遜的態度響應及應用永續性的方式。

房屋

位於馬略卡島南部的坎波斯市舊城，多數建築屬於聯棟兩層的獨立式住宅。過去，地面層通常用作居住空間，而一樓則作為儲藏室與一般農業用途。

傳統建築保留了與道路的距離，這是我們希望延續的特點。從節約能源和安全性的角度來看，之於過去這點非常重要，而現今，更牽涉到隱私和舒適性。此外，我們進行的任何改造都應確保最高品質的安靜度，並且尊重當地建築、傳統和文化，不去破壞其樣貌。

庭院是地中海建築最重要的空間，在過去的項目中始終扮演核心角色。我們的設計兼顧兩個方面，首先考量的是不減少庭院面積，因為對於一個家庭來說，庭院具有很重要的價值。再來考量到氣候，庭院就像房子全年都可以使用的另一個房間。

這棟住宅曾經是該城鎮雜貨店的一部分，其中一個區域是商店，其餘空間作為住宅使用。40多年前雜貨店停業後，就始終維持現況。

在這類建築改造中，我們努力保持結構和空間的初始樣貌。對於原始結構如：厚重石牆進行拆除、開放或過度修改，總是面臨困難複雜度高且有特定程度的損害。因此，我們的角色就是整合空間需求並且尊重過去留存下來的結構等，使其盡可能地一致 - 在功能需求和保護建築價值之間找到的平衡點。

此項目與我們多數的項目相同，使用了周圍現有材料，例如來自同一個城鎮Huguet工廠的傳統馬賽克瓷磚。

最後，這個改造項目完成時，我們期望能夠呈現一個重新思考、獨特且現代的空間，旨在保留並再現傳統地中海氛圍，希望這個設計能經得起時間的考驗。