house in never never land, ibiza by andrés jaque architects
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we have just received images from spanish firm andrés jaque architects of
'house in never never land', ibiza.

for their design of house in never, never land they made four major decisions;
to minimize tree and shrub removal or pruning on the allotment, raise more than
80% of the building mass on piles to avoid any sort of disturbance on the ground
(paving, crops, watering or other input) which might eventually alter its properties,
clustering all the waste filtering and treatment equipment and compensating for
the amount of substrate affected by the foundation by including an equivalent
mass of substrate in various parts of the skin around the buildings, mixed with
a water-retaining gelatin to reproduce the moister of original soil in shallower
conditions. the design work began with phase 0, consisting on the close
scrutiny and mapping of every tree and shrub. the geometries of the project were
then adapted correspondingly and the construction was inscribed in the space
available in between the threes, which thus flow through the building interiors.


house in never never land, ibiza
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house in never never land, ibiza by andrés jaque architects
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house in never never land
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house in never never land, side elevation
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plan trees mapped out around the house in never never land,
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house in never never land, plan
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construction of house in never never land
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construction of house in never never land
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construction of house in never never land
image courtesy andrés jaque architects


construction of house in never never land
image courtesy andrés jaque architects