Three Trees House by Gallardo Llopis Arquitectos
Three Trees House is a beautiful villa located on the Spanish island of Ibiza, designed in 2020 by Gallardo Llopis Arquitectos.
Description
On a solid foundation of carved rock walls, the rotundity of the prismatic, white and abstract volume is fragmented by the opening of patios around the slender silhouettes of three trees. Around it, free and fluid, orbits the space of the house, protected in the delicate embrace of an architecture that levitates, weightless and defiant, on the interior landscape.
Located in the heart of the island of Ibiza, the plot is located on the urban border of Santa Gertrudis, in an eminently rural setting. The weight of the building tradition acquires in this rocky country landscape its maximum influence, where the white austerity of the cubic architecture of Ibiza is the protagonist among pine forests and small fields that outline the territory. The proposal takes the volumetric axioms of this vernacular Mediterranean architecture as a starting point to initiate its own compositional process with a contemporary architectural language: a set of white prisms on a masonry wall base. Thus, a dialogue is established between architectural abstraction and the tradition of dry-stone construction on which it is based.
With a markedly longitudinal proportion on a practically flat terrain and between the landscaped spaces of the adjoining houses, the plot lacks long visuals to which to turn. This condition determines the i...
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