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Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal

Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
© José Hevia

COURTYARD SOCIAL HOUSES IN ES MERCADAL

Jaime J. Ferrer Forés

AREA
4460 m²

YEAR
2011

PHOTOGRAPHS
José Hevia

CONSULTANT
Roca Ingenieros

CLIENT
IBAVI, Institut Balear de l’Habitatge

COST
2.814.178 Euros

COLLABORATORS
Yolanda Ortega Sanz, Vicenç Jordi Manent, Joan Reynés

STRUCTURE
Bernal Nada

CONTRACTOR
Llabrés Feliu. Juan Alfonso Rivero, Yolanda Homar and Antonio Rodríguez

LOCATION
Es Mercadal, Spain

CATEGORY
Social Housing

PATIO HOUSES AND ENVIRONMENT: MAT BUILDING

As an extension of the urban tissue of Es Mercadal, characterized by a network of narrow streets and small courtyards, the project was conceived as a mat building, where houses open to an ordered series of patios and connected through two access galleries.

Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
© José Hevia
Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
© José Hevia

The building volume is excavated with various operations to be filled with light and air.

Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
© José Hevia
Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
© José Hevia

The project evokes the tradition of courtyards and the rationality of traditional construction which flows climate adaptation and ancestral wisdom of the wall and the threshold.

Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
© José Hevia
Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
© José Hevia

Faced with the heavy traffic that crosses the Round Way and diverting traffic from downtown, the proposed patios system improves the acoustics of the house and ensures maximum privacy and acts as climate control system.

Thus, the compositional system intensifies the action of passive design of the building in order to facilitate natural ventilation of the home and improve comfort and energy consumption.  Despite the irregular perimeter, the composition of courtyard houses seeks maximum serialization.


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Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
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Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
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Courtyard Social Houses in Es Mercadal
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