Casa Forbes is a single house that looks boldly on a hillside of Costa d'en Blanes with views over the entire Bay of Palma. In the way in which the hanging gardens of Babylon built a domesticated natural environment, the Casa Forbes provides the necessary horizontality in this seemingly impossible terrain.

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Architects: Miel Arquitectos

Location: Costa d'en Blanes, Spain

Area: 654.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Structure Advisory: Toni Casas

Engineer: Eduard Rodriguez

Quantity Surveyor: Carme Aguiló Mora

Landscape: Daniela Sanchez, Antonio Zamora

Constructor: Xarxa Homes

Garden Roof: 158 m2
Main Floor: 141 m2 cons. + 110 m2 terrazas + piscina

Lower Floor: 223 m2 const. + 22 m2 terraza frontal

Nº Rooms: 4 habitaciones dobles en suite

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Text description provided by the architects. Casa Forbes is a single house that looks boldly on a hillside of Costa d'en Blanes with views over the entire Bay of Palma. In the way in which the hanging gardens of Babylon built a domesticated natural environment, the Casa Forbes provides the necessary horizontality in this seemingly impossible terrain.

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The outer enclosure of oblique steel slats cut kinetically sieves the landscape as you approach its entrance. After overcoming the bath of views that hi...