What is
The house between party walls of the towns of Mallorca. Facade facing the street, corral behind, porxo under the roof. House of a peasant or artisan family who lived from the nearby countryside.
##Com works
- Vertically, by uses. Below, life and work (entrance, kitchen, cellar or warehouse). Upstairs, bedrooms. Under the tile, the porxo: barn, drying room, insulation.
- Porxo as a thermal mattress. An air and grain chamber between the tile and the rooms (ventilated chamber logic; to be verified in studies).
- Corral behind. Garden, well or cistern, small animals. Street-corral cross ventilation.
- Patterned facade. Orderly and few gaps; blinds to filter light ( blinds ).
- Single or gable roof that opens onto the street and the corral; The water from the corral can go to the cistern ( teulades i ràfecs ).
Elements and vocabulary
- porxo (DCVB, Mall.): highest floor of the house, under tile. Porxo fals = sostremort.
- In Porreres, porxo de davant and porxo de darrera: each interior slope of the roof; the one behind with dining room and kitchen (DCVB).
- entrance, kitchen, cellar, corral, pou, aljub, finestra, balcony
- race: in Majorcan speech, the street (use in the description of the house to verify)
- «House of three buits»: symmetrical façade with central access and two side pieces (Mallorca Global Mag; please verify in academic source).
History
- Typology extended in the towns of Pla and Levante (chronology to be studied; to be verified).
- The Balearic Islands do not share a single vernacular type: Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza differ (TFG UB, 2014).
On veure'n
- Old towns of Sineu, Petra, Montuïri, Porreres, Llubí, Artà. Entire streets unaltered.
- Museu de Mallorca – Etnològica Section (Wall): stately house converted into a museum of rural life. Tab .
Stat
- Alive and in use. Real estate pressure: interior emptying, loss of porxo as space, replacement of carpentry and tiles.
- Protection dispersed in municipal heritage catalogs (varies by municipality).
Why is it design
A house that adapts in layers: each plant has a climate and a use. Lesson for today's home: section before floor plan, intermediate spaces that work. It is proximity design .
Avui architecture
- TEd'A architects : Can Jaime i n'Isabelle (Palma) and Casa en Artà (FAD Award 2018) reinterpret the construction systems of the Mallorcan house.
- RipollTizon : takes the small scale of the town, the patio and the light filters.
- Josep (José) Ferragut Pou (1912–1968): “empirical rationalism” shaped by terrain, climate and construction tradition of the island; his first works, single-family houses in Capdepera, Artà, Pollença and Son Servera (Ferrer Forés, REIA). There is no identified architect «Antoni Ferragut»: it is probably him.
- Can Lis (Jørn Utzon, Porto Petro, ~1971–72): marès and stone from Santanyí carved by local stonemasons; reinterprets Mallorcan construction methods.
For the project
- Atlas: drawn type section (porxo, plant, entrance, corral) with its climate.
- Workshop “Reading a village house” with TEd'A.
- Related trades: teules , hydraulic rajoles , marès , ferro forjat .
Frequently asked questions
What is Village house?
The house between party walls of the towns of Mallorca. Facade facing the street, corral behind, porxo under the roof. House of a peasant or artisan family…
Sources
- dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?word=porxe
- diposit.ub.edu/items/8e5d9f27-3d55-4fb8-8d84-9dea13fbce75/full
- mallorcaglobalmag.es/?p=156294
- abacus.universidadeuropea.com/entities/publication/7a3fd0bc-aa7b-4a53-8a76-dc423
Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.