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Entwurf • Design Mariana de Delás, ES-Madrid
Bauherr • Client privat
Standort • Location ES-Palma
Nutzfläche • Floor space 92 m 2
Fotos • Photos José Hevia
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 126

PALMA HIDEAWAY

IN MALLORCA

Living space is scarce and expensive in Spain’s big ci-
ties. There is a trend towards new uses for commercial
7 ground floors. In 2017, with plenty of creativity and a
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9 small budget, Mariana de Delás converted a motorcy-
5 cle repair shop in Barcelona. This Raval Hideaway was
followed by another motorcycle repair shop, a coinci-
dence: the Palma Hideaway on Mallorca.
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F or a long time, the 92 square-metre motorcycle repair shop on
2 the periphery of the historic centre of Palma had been vacant. But
it definitely had potential: high ceilings, an interior courtyard and
walls built of the sandstone typical of Mallorca, the marès. An unde-
niable disadvantage, however, was the direct, ground-level location
on a busy street. This flaw had to be acoustically and spatially alle-
viated, however, if attractive living space was to be designed here. For
Grundriss • Floor plan 1 Eingangspuffer: Garten • Entracnce buffer: garden Mariana de Delás, the brilliant solution was a small entrance courty-
2 Eingangsbereich • Hall ard. This now serves as a buffer zone as well as a light catcher. The
3 Küche • Kitchen
4 Ess-/Wohnbereich • Living/Dining external façade of this in-between-space consists of a black folding
5 Schlafzimmer • Main bedroom
6 Ankleide • Closet space door of perforated plate, the interior façade of a wood-glass construc-
7 Badezimmer • Bathroom tion. Bottle-green tiles here take up a Mediterranean style element,
8 Innenhof • Patio
9 Gästezimmer mit Bad • Guest room with bathroom plants are thriving in a built-in planter and a seating bench invites to
linger. Right at the entrance, the tiles and the softwood introduce what
runs as a common theme through the whole apartment: simple but
effectively used materials. Mariana de Delás combined the slightly
elevated and thus not visible from the street bedroom-office-dressing-
room zone as well as the guest area into a distinct zone. The open
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common rooms – kitchen, living- and dining area and finally a patio –
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are arranged as a sequence. Uniform terrazzo emphasizes the effect
6 of an ensemble whereas solid concrete beams structure this visual
5 and spatial axis. A wall diagonally inserted into the space – a partition
8 and a shelf unit at the same time – directs the eye from the entrance
into the depth. In the kitchen, the tiled worktable stands like an island
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which the architect has developed together with young Mallorcan de-
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signers. The red-green piece of furniture adds strong colours to the
naked softwood-concrete-terrazzo ambience. In the living area, a U-
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shaped built-in sofa optimizes the available space. This room gene-
rously opens to the sheltered patio with the striking marès wall. Like
in the entrance buffer zone, one here finds tiled planters. The gue-
stroom with its own bathroom – this used to be the storage – is also
Axonometrie • Axonometry oriented to this patio, a calm oasis away from the noise of the street.

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