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Caribbean House
Caribbean House
Caribbean
Special Mention, 2025 A+Awards, Details - Architecture +Brick
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Caribbean House
Caribbean
Special Mention, 2025 A+Awards, Details - Architecture +Brick
Project of the Day on Dec 06, 2025
Project Featured on Dec 06, 2025
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Surrounded by tall palm trees and perched on undulating terrain, Casa en el Caribe is a single-family home featuring a prominent element: a large roof of tabique vaults that shields it from the sun while inviting in the breeze.
Bordered to the west by a bustling road and to the east by a spectacular palm forest, three platforms sit at varying levels, adapting to the terrain's descent and opening up to the natural landscape. To protect the most vulnerable side, a local stone lattice is projected onto the patio and entrance facade, mitigating traffic noise, providing privacy, and filtering the setting sun.
Atop these platforms, a slender and lightweight metal structure, a uniform grid of 5.4m x 5.4m, supports a large roof, delineating the vertical space and offering protection to the various interior and exterior spaces beneath it.
The house is oriented to facilitate the passage of prevailing winds, allowing for a continuous sweep of natural ventilation and light through wooden lattice screens, large windows, vaults, interior courtyards, and specially designed openings, creating a microclimate under the roof, providing a pleasant sensation of protection and freshness. This extensive shade cover contributes significantly to energy savings.
The design caters to the needs of a diverse, large family, with informal, open, and permeable spaces that remain cozy and compact, maintaining an appropriate scale for various uses: kitchen, dining, living areas, office, bedrooms, greenhouse, and a play or study area for the youngest members.
The use of local brick and the development of a hybrid structural system combining brick vaults with a steel structure on slender pilotis were chosen. The employment of mud in the form of bricks for floor construction offers suitable climate control due to its low conductivity and relatively economical nature. The uniform yet artisanal texture of the brickwork on the horizontal plane of the roof, along with a smooth local travertine floor, counterbalances the use of glass and aluminum in the walls.
Nine types of vaults of varying geometry and slenderness, according to the character of the interior spaces they frame, protrude from the roof. Two large vaults frame the meeting and resting place. Undoubtedly, both the vaults of Miró's studio in Palma and those of La Ricarda serve as precedents.
Ponds and pools traverse the house from east to west, bringing their murmur, light, reflections, and freshness. Beneath the house, large cisterns await the collection of abundant rainwater, essential for continuous irrigation.
Bordered to the west by a bustling road and to the east by a spectacular palm forest, three platforms sit at varying levels, adapting to the terrain's descent and opening up to the natural landscape. To protect the most vulnerable side, a local stone lattice is projected onto the patio and entrance facade, mitigating traffic noise, providing privacy, and filtering the setting sun.
Atop these platforms, a slender and lightweight metal structure, a uniform grid of 5.4m x 5.4m, supports a large roof, delineating the vertical space and offering protection to the various interior and exterior spaces beneath it.
The house is oriented to facilitate the passage of prevailing winds, allowing for a continuous sweep of natural ventilation and light through wooden lattice screens, large windows, vaults, interior courtyards, and specially designed openings, creating a microclimate under the roof, providing a pleasant sensation of protection and freshness. This extensive shade cover contributes significantly to energy savings.
The design caters to the needs of a diverse, large family, with informal, open, and permeable spaces that remain cozy and compact, maintaining an appropriate scale for various uses: kitchen, dining, living areas, office, bedrooms, greenhouse, and a play or study area for the youngest members.
The use of local brick and the development of a hybrid structural system combining brick vaults with a steel structure on slender pilotis were chosen. The employment of mud in the form of bricks for floor construction offers suitable climate control due to its low conductivity and relatively economical nature. The uniform yet artisanal texture of the brickwork on the horizontal plane of the roof, along with a smooth local travertine floor, counterbalances the use of glass and aluminum in the walls.
Nine types of vaults of varying geometry and slenderness, according to the character of the interior spaces they frame, protrude from the roof. Two large vaults frame the meeting and resting place. Undoubtedly, both the vaults of Miró's studio in Palma and those of La Ricarda serve as precedents.
Ponds and pools traverse the house from east to west, bringing their murmur, light, reflections, and freshness. Beneath the house, large cisterns await the collection of abundant rainwater, essential for continuous irrigation.
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