The house from the rocks below, late October. Flat roofs, one chimney, no sign.
Ground floor, north wing. Scale 1 : 100.
Annotations
01
The Courtyard Room was the farmhouse kitchen. The vault is original.
02
The entrance hall is the only room in the house with a stone floor laid in 1790.
03
The court holds the oldest olive tree on this coast. Nothing was built within its crown.
04
The kitchen is open to the dining room. You can hear dinner being made.
Seventy centimetres of stone,
three coats of lime,
one olive tree.
The stair to the roof, noon.
Materials
Five, in total
01
Lime plaster
Mixed on site, three thin coats
02
Limestone
From Ciutadella, floors, bath, stair
03
Terracotta
Hand pressed tiles, fired in Es Mercadal
04
Olive wood
Beds, stools and the long table
05
Linen
Washed, undyed, woven in Portugal
Section
Stone Suite
The Stone Suite sits in what used to be the cistern. Its vault is 4.6 metres to the crown and its walls keep the room at 22 degrees all summer.
We cooled the house by building it properly in the first place. There is no air conditioning anywhere. Shutters, cross draughts and mass do the work, and a quiet fan is in every room for the two worst weeks of August.
