Can Tòfol i n’Aina / TEd’A arquitectes

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Illes Balears, Spain
  • Architects: TEd’A arquitectes: TEd’A arquitectes - Raimon Farré, Jaume Mayol, Irene Pérez
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

Text description provided by the architects. It was a very narrow and long plot. There was an existing construction with very small rooms without natural light. We had very long medians and very narrow façades at either end.

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The new volume, adapted to the existing structure, is organized into four separate volumes placed one after another with void interstices of one meter in between them.

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This organization generates a new interior volume. The repetition of three skylights coincides with the interstices, opening the roof and the floor of the first level while generating a new internal order composed from the rhythm: full-empty-full-empty-…

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At the same time, this new rhythm generates a double effect: first allowing the natural light to fall upon the ground floor, and secondly communicating visually both floor levels through the interstices.

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Cite: "Can Tòfol i n’Aina / TEd’A arquitectes" 14 Jun 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/142627/can-tofol-i-n%25e2%2580%2599aina-ted%25e2%2580%2599a-arquitectes> ISSN 0719-8884

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Can Tòfol i n’Aina / TEd’A arquitectes

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