OLARQ _ Osvaldo Luppi Architects

Villa Boscana

Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes

Villa Boscana

OLARQ Osvaldo Luppi Architects

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Osvaldo Luppi

MANUFACTURERS
Poliform, Jet, Minimal Windows

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mauricio Fuertes

ENGINEER
Fernando Purroy

COLLABORATING ARCHITECT
Marc Cifre

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Son Vida, Spain

AREA
800 M²

YEAR
2013

AN ICON

The form must be forceful. If not, it is not a form.
A double-story volume of exposed concrete is embedded in the rock generating a cantilever that occupies a third floor in the form of a wooden base.

Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes
Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes

Grey concrete, natural wood, black metal, water, rocks, and vegetation are the only elements.
The crystal pool seems to float in the same water it contains.
There are no windows, just the absence of walls.
Rocks and concrete: The stony and the stony.

CONTEXT

The house is set on a very steep land in a consolidated residential neighborhood with views to the bay of Palma de Mallorca.

Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes
Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes

Maximize views and protect yourself from the gazes of neighbors. See without being seen.

INVESTIGATION

The concrete formwork has been made with phenolic panels. Pine boards of 12.5 cm high and of two variable thicknesses were nailed to those panels.

A 1-meter high module was formed consisting of 8 12.5 cm high boards with alternating thicknesses.

Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes
Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes

This repetition allowed rapid execution and re-use of the formwork.

The random but repetitive arrangement of the different thicknesses creates shadows that break with the idea of the repetitive module.

The whole house has been concreted without a single vertical concrete joint.

Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes
Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes

The horizontal joints have been made to coincide with boards of different thicknesses, so they are practically invisible.

MATERIAL

Concrete wood metal glass green water light.

SYSTEM

Access floor: parking spaces/garages, entrance hall, master bedroom. Public floor: living room, kitchen, dining room, covered terrace.

Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes
Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes

Private floor: bedrooms, indoor pool, sauna and technical dependencies. Through high ceilings and large windows, fluid space is barely delimited.

LINKS

The house enhances the user's link with nature through a non-contact contemplation.

Large spaces and large surfaces of water evoke the distant but present bay: to create the landscape in a steep terrain.

Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes
Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes

The access terrace is a dream experience that seeks to disconcert while evoking an ethereal security.

To cause a fusion effect with the landscape, the pool is overflowing on three of its sides and the last half meter is formed by two 15 mm panes attached to a securing film.


Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes
Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes
Villa Boscana
© Mauricio Fuertes


Villa Boscana
Ground Floor Plan
Villa Boscana
First Floor Plan
Villa Boscana
Second Floor Plan
Villa Boscana
Rooftop Plan


Villa Boscana
Elevations and Section

Villa Boscana
Constructive Details and Photos

OLARQ _ Osvaldo Luppi Architects
T +34 971 712268
OLARQ _ Osvaldo Luppi Architects
Carrer de la Protectora, 10, local 6, Distrito Centro, 07012 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain