The new Cap Vermell Country Club in rural Mallorca caters for a broad mix of clientele and use. Alongside the pools, exercise rooms, shop and steam rooms CVCC houses a fully functioning restaurant/bistro/bar, an indoor lounge/restaurant that opens out through walled open air patios and beyond to wide terraces including a barbeque, From the keen swimmer or gymnast to mixed family groups later and club members in the evenings, the restaurant/bar/bistro adapts as the day progresses, changing the style of catering, opening and closing terraces, the club is open until late in the evening.
CVCC caters for a mix of clientele and usage. Alongside the pools, exercise rooms, shop and steam rooms the building houses a fully functioning restaurant, bistro, bar, an indoor lounge that opens out through walled open air patios and beyond to wide terraces including. From the keen swimmer or gymnast to mixed family groups in the afternoon to club members in the evenings, the restaurant/bar/bistro adapts as the day progresses, changing the style of catering, opening and closing terraces, the club is open until late in the evening.
CVCC is a product of the twenty first century. It has pitched roofs and walls that mix brickwork and tiles with pale local stone, traditional elements are abstracted and mixed in unusual ways with tall windows, strong iridescent colours and iridescent tiles that gives the building a distinctive presence.
Local materials, heavyweight construction with carefully orientated colonnades, terraces and glazing minimises energy consumption and reduced environmental impact during construction. Biomass boilers provide heating.
The composition consists of offset rectangles punctuated with courtyards, projections reach across raised terraces or galleries and link out towards semi covered seating areas, barbeque space and outdoor pools. One rectangle houses restaurants and hospitality areas the other indoor pool and gymnasium. The distinction between inside and outside is blurred appropriately for a mild Mediterranean climate.