Environment Friendly Traditional Houses / Ines Vidal Farré

The building was designed by local farmers to prevent the earth from washing down the hillside. An important priority has been to design public buildings with the same material used by islanders for centuries for their farm houses, and in adapting the local landscape for agricultural purposes. Ibizan traditional houses are often set partially into the ground in close contact with the ground. This is an architectural tradition that has grown out of relative poverty, and sometimes even starvation. Until the 1960s, this island is one of the poorest parts of Spain.

For this reason, the entrance to the north a little more than a crack in the surface of a stone wall, with flat roofs where grass or vegetables can be planted by the parish priest (the owner, so to speak). The main purpose is to let the building blend with the surrounding area. On the second side of the court is set to rock, to bring light and fresh air into the building. After the common sense of the building faces south to receive lots of sun. An advantage that may be governed by sliding windows and porch. Sun that is facing west, a discomfort in latitude during the summer, is a blessing deflected a white wall, which also divides the terrace outside into various rooms.

Social Centre has a distribution area in the center that serves as an auditorium, and where the reception desk, post office and waiting room for medical attention to find. This hallway leads directly into some rooms, ie classrooms, cafeteria and assembly / function rooms, equipped with two large sliding doors that when opened enlarge the space as far south terrace, where a room large enough to provide a special amphitheater meeting at which all villagers can take part.Via