Paris-based Atelier du Pont has teamed up with Menorca-based Aru Arquitectura to transform a pair of dilapidated previous farm buildings right into a summer time home with a stunning combine of colors and textures.
Estancia San José is the holiday house of a mom and daughter, set amidst 76 hectares of Menorcan countryside.
The renovation concerned changing a conventional stone barn and the adjoining farmhouse.
The result’s a four-bedroom house with a country aesthetic and modern particulars together with pivoting doorways and an acid-yellow kitchen.
“It was an entire smash and we introduced it again to life,” mentioned Atelier du Pont’s founders, Anne-Cécile Comar and Philippe Croisier.
“We preserved the character of each buildings however reimagined the whole house,” they instructed Dezeen.
The homeowners approached Comar and Croisier after seeing their design for Son Blanc, a Menorcan lodge that additionally concerned changing a former farm constructing.
Each mom and daughter have spent most of their lives shifting all over the world. They needed to create a base the place they might spend their holidays collectively.
Eager to work with an area companion, Comar and Croisier invited Aru Arquitectura to collaborate.
Their design attracts on the standard supplies and craft strategies of the Balearic island whereas additionally referencing among the different locations its homeowners have referred to as house, together with Africa, the Center East and Patagonia.
“The homeowners gave us carte blanche to think about the inside idea and the totally different atmospheres in line with the spirit of the place,” Comar and Croisier defined.
“We have been eager to pay homage to Minorcan savoir-faire and incorporate typical components comparable to several types of rendering, textures and wall finishes,” they mentioned.
Within the new format, the previous barn turns into a light-filled residing house with bedrooms slotted in behind.
This barn initially had only one window, an arched doorway that will have been used to convey livestock out and in.
The architects added a collection of matching openings alongside the remainder of the facade, incorporating the pivoting doorways.
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Within the previous home, three small rooms have been opened as much as create a beneficiant kitchen.
The property additionally features a hammam and a big out of doors swimming pool.
Pure supplies and textures characteristic all through, from the tough stone partitions of the previous barn to the terracotta brickwork that gives inner flooring and exterior patios.
A lot of the fabric palette takes cues from present colors and particulars – for example, the acid-yellow tiles within the kitchen reference a pale yellow ceiling from one of many previous rooms.
Different key particulars embrace iroko wooden joinery, handwoven headboards and custom-designed bedside tables and facet tables in terracotta and twine.
“The work of the hand can be all the time current and intentionally left seen,” mentioned Comar and Croisier.
Menorca is much less established as a vacationer vacation spot than Mallorca and Ibiza, the 2 bigger Balearic Islands, however has been growing in recognition since main artwork gallery Hauser & Wirth opened an outpost right here.
Different latest houses constructed right here embrace Shift Home and Bundle Home, each by domestically primarily based Nomo Studio, and the minimalist Casa E, designed by Marina Senabre.
Estancia San José’s homeowners plan to hire their home to holidaymakers when they aren’t utilizing it.
The images is by Maria Missaglia.
