Siamese

Modular homes in Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca

Jose Luis and Xisca, two siblings with their respective families decided to contact Cronotopos to help them design a project of two prefabricated modular homes, linked together and with the ambition to meet both their current and future needs: a flexible domestic space for new CRONOS.

Las Siamesas is the result of a project consisting of two modular houses designed in Zaragoza and sent to Palma de Mallorca. Located on a 665 m2 lot, these modular homes are born from the search for intermediate spaces that guarantee the union and intimacy of both families.

Customer: Jose Luis
Surface area: 180 m2
Status: Licensed
Timeline: Nov 2018 – Present
Location: Palma de Mallorca
Type of project: Modular Housing
Construction price: 355165.23€.

The position between two adjoining plots implied the search for two orientations, north and south, at the same time that different green and coexistence spaces were configured. These spaces are: the entrance located to the north, the garden located to the south, and a courtyard as a resource for lighting, ventilation and coexistence between the two houses.

From this courtyard and its opening to the south, the volumetric configuration of the modular dwellings is born. This staggered shape allows light to penetrate throughout the house, while focusing the visual to the large garden located at the back of the plot.

At the same time, the building is set back from the alignment with the street in order to achieve a lower visual impact. And at the same time, by making the volume of the second floor overhang the street, an intermediate space is established before the entrance, an “arrive, cross, be” that invites to the interior of the house.

Axonometry of the assembly

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Since the orientation towards the sun is important, it is also important to have resources to protect oneself from the sun due to the context in which the house is located, such as the climate of the island of Mallorca.

For this reason, a system of sliding shutters was created to achieve greater dynamism in the façade, privacy to the exterior and controlled solar protection to the interior.

The common space created in the courtyard is equally important. A flexible place, since it can be a single and common space or divided in two, to have the possibility of generating privacy between both families or to generate a shared space of relationship, articulating both dwellings.

Another articulating element to highlight is found in the living room-kitchen-dining room space of each dwelling, which has the vocation to modify the TOPOS in any CRONOS. The furniture that makes up the kitchen is diluted giving way to the staircase. All this custom-made intervention is what gives such a character to the central space of the modular housing.