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Architects: ACN Arquitectura, Montis Sastre Arquitectura
- Area: 321 m²
- Year: 2022
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Photographs:Lluís Bort
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Cantera Can Casetes
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Lead Architects: Tomás Montis Sastre, Adrià Clapés Nicolau
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Text description provided by the architects. The Project is located in the green zone where “Sa Cova Son Caulelles” is found, in Pórtol, Marratxí. It lies on a very irregular site, due to an existing old sandstone quarry. Due to time and the surrounding environment, the quarry is now covered by a layer of topsoil and lush vegetation, which is dominated by the Mediterranean Pine.
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The objective of the intervention in reference to the site, which is limited by Costa i Llobera street, the municipal sports center, and the Son Caulelles geriatric residence, is to join the latter to form part of it.
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The project proposal consists of a timely accessible “promenade” in the most rugged area of the plot to reach this small heritage corner. It proposes an adapted route that also overcomes the existing ground-level differences. It offers a path that seems to have been working from the same land, which is achieved through the choice of materiality. It is defined by a floor of unattended concrete which is of an earthy color, a sandstone curb that looks like it's emerging from the ground, and a dry-stone coastal wall (marge), very common in the limits of the urban forest environment of the municipality of Marratxí.
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The plot only has a border accessible from the street and this limit, which consists of a boundary wall that generates the facade. For this reason, the concept of dry-stone wall (marge) with “pie de rey” faces is recovered again, defining at both sides the two entrances by means of two “fitas” of marés: a secondary to access to the maintenance and the main one, whose "fita de marés" by the grace of its geometry, invites you in.
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It is offered at both ends of the route, two urban corners of rest, one in the access and another, a small bench-like atrium, directed towards the Cave of Son Caulelles.
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