Modern minimalist residence designed by Marià Castelló Architecture on the Spanish island Formentera

Bosc d’en Pep Ferrer is the traditional toponym of a large plot located next to the beach of Migjorn on the south coast of the island of Formentera. This territory has a place that unleashes the desire to inhabit an oneiric view, where the horizon is only cut by the beautiful silhouette of the Pi des Català Tower, built in 1763.

The Project focuses on the duality between the telluric and the tectonic. The heavy and the light. The earth and the air. The handcrafted and the technological. Compression effort and traction resistance.

The rock, which comes to the surface in the chosen place, has been carved as if it were a sculpture, offering a cavity reminiscent of the ‘marès’ stone quarries. A whole space materialized with a single stone. Monolithic. Megalithic. Stereotomic.

The intervention offers a house for a family sensitive to the environment. The program is divided into three light modules built in dry construction systems and a cavity made by subtracting material on the lower floor. This longitudinal disposition gives place to full-empty successions, patios, connecting walkways, transverse views, and a site created by time and discovered by surprise: a natural cave in the central access courtyard, which was integrated into the Project during construction.

The structure is easily understandable and manifests itself in three stratums with ascending levels of precision: the lower floor expresses the apparent absence of containment walls added to the rocky layer, as well as the appearance of a small concrete structure that regulates the upper level of this floor and constitutes the support platform of the ground floor. On the upper floor, as if it were a real-scale model, the structure's double-supported set up becomes evident from the inside, where it has been left seen in most cases. Here a single element (cross-laminated wood panels) cluster several functions: structure, closure, and interior finishing.