Aulets — «From site to site / Earth, stone and wood» (April 2025)

What it is: presentation (46 slides, April 2025) of the Aulets Arquitectes studio (Palma; Francisco Cifuentes and Sebastián Martorell). Original in `raw/Aulets_.pptx`. It's almost all image; the text is very short.

The sequence of ideas (summary, not copy)

1. Culture = territory + material + technique. Architecture unites the inhabitants with their territory.

2. Culture of abandonment. Since the 1970s, the tourist economy and oil-dependent materials have disconnected construction from the territory. Map of abandoned spaces.

3. New culture: reterritorialize. Build network. Resource maps of Mallorca: earth, stone, wood.

4. Social resources: production processes with local material live in people: mestres de calç, stonemasons, gerrers, fusters.

5. Reuse and renaturalize: reuse stone; adapt.

6. Research on the forest: climate change, fires, pests, storms.

7. Amarar: traditional technique of submerging wood in water to make it more durable. Project (since 2021) to use Majorcan pine in furniture and construction, with traceability, in collaboration with the UIB. Wedges, "only wood", industrialize, spin-off. According to Cifuentes, 95% of the forest is abandoned while 70,000 tons of wood are imported (press figures, to be verified).

8. Take care of territory and people.

9. Teach: shared learning, designing with local resources, working with your hands (design and build).

For the project

Manuel wants to take it as inspiration, not copy it. How it translates to Indigenous Design is about reterritorializing design . Aulets is also a natural ally: architects who already work with the same craftsmen (calç, pedra, fang, fusta).

Sources

• archdaily.com/pt/1182080/exibicao-do-documentario-amarar
• metalocus.es/es/noticias/acariciada-por-la-brisa-de-mallorca-guarderia-de-llubi-

Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.

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