‘4 porches 4 skylights’ by ferran vizoso architecture, balearic islands, spainimage © jose heviaall images courtesy of ferran vizoso architecture
upon the clients’ request for a house whose interior is exterior and exterior is interior, spanish architect ferran vizoso in collaboration with jesús cardona found the solution through the use of four porches and four skylights. the peculiar massing replete with irregular angles are carefully designed around the triangular exterior courtyards as inverse funnels. each one frames a specific view of the equally designed landscape and when the doors of the individual volumes are slid open and hidden into the walls, the entire house becomes one large covered outdoor porch. triangular skylights in each of the inhabitable ‘pavilions’ accept light into the interiors with prismatic refractions, framing a view of the sky. through simple maneuvers the home is able to close the individual program – bedrooms and living area – from the exterior and at any time become a complete part of it, being surrounded from all angles by the forested site.
entrance gateimage © jose hevia
approachimage © jose hevia
image © jose hevia
triangular porchimage © jose hevia
image © jose hevia
connection to the poolimage © jose hevia
porch is continued on the interiorimage © jose hevia
living space and kitchenimage © jose hevia
image © jose hevia
image © jose hevia
interior courtyard connected various individual structuresimage © jose hevia
bedroomimage © jose hevia
bathroom with prismatic skylightimage © jose hevia
site plan
floor plan / level 0
floor plan / level 1
elevations
model
plan cut model
project info:
location: port d’addaia housing development, es mercadal, menorca, balearic islands, spainclients: private, a couple of lawyers from madridarchitects: ferran vizoso, jesús cardonacollaborators: xosé domínguez, begoña cazorla and rené gudertechnical architect: juan cardonacontractor: inversiones y promociones inmobiliarias q.m. s.l.pictures: josé hevia www.josehevia.esroof surface: 162 m2interior surface: 106 m2built surface: 146 m2 (129,50 house + 0,5 x 33 m2 porches)budget: 223.340 €cost €/m2: 1.530 €/m2
