[CARLES OLIVER + ALFONSO REINA + ANTONIO MARTÍN + XIM MOYÁ + Mª ANTÒNIA GARCÍAS]
Five social dwellings at 97th Regal street, Son Gotleu, Palma de Mallorca. This is the first project completed by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) that continues the Reusing Posidonia research in Formentera, in this case adapted to the Mallorca resource map.
The building is located in Son Gotleu, a neighbourhood which began to be developed in 1943.
Initially, the fine-grained urban fabric combined Mediterranean closed blocks with single-family homes. During the 1960s, in order to house the workers from mainland Spain who built the hotels in Palma beach, these single-family homes were replaced by the cheapest modern movement apartment blocks, without elevators, and which have become a focus of social conflicts.
The project recovers and makes visible one of the best features of the neighbourhood: the town houses built with local sandstone, which reveal the resource map of the place, economically viable again in the 21st century thanks to the thermal and acoustic regulations for buildings. The climate emergency makes possible to recover those systems that would have avoided such a climate crisis.
The CO2 embodied emissions in the facade construction system are 31.62kg / CO2 per m2. If the façade had been resolved using a conventional solution, emissions would be around 126.04kg/ CO2, so the contamination produced during the construction of the façade has been reduced by 75%. This approach has been extended to all elements of the building.
The Building Energy Rating is A, and the hot water production is carried out by aerothermal pumps located on the deck, supported by a battery of photovoltaic sun panels. Text description by the architects.
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Photography by: Jose Hevia / www.josehevia.es