Casa em Palma de Maiorca [House in Palma de Maiorca], Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2001)

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People:

Alvaro Siza (archive creator)
Alvaro Siza (architect)

Title:

Casa em Palma de Maiorca [House in Palma de Maiorca], Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2001)

Date:

2001-2008

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

2942 drawings (including 2700 reprographic copies)
323 photographic materials
0.41 linear metres of textual documentation

Scope and content:
This project series documents the Casa em Palma de Maiorca in Palma de Maiorca, Spain. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 28/00. The office assigned the date 2001 to this project.
The project site is located in Palma, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean sea. The summer house is divided into three blocks, each divided into smaller parts. The two-story house was built on sloping land and completed in 2008. Collaborators on this project were Atsushi Ueno, Fafel Moranta, and Miquel Capllonch. The eastern wing includes the master bedroom and guest bedroom. The western wing has three bedrooms and a living room. The western block connects the northeast and eastern wings. The northeast block, with two rooms and a living room, hosts the housekeeper. The private spaces are all located on the upper section and the public sections are on the ground level.
Documenting this project are sketches, studies, preliminary drawings, plans, working drawings, and technical drawings. Textual material includes project documentation and correspondence. Photographic material documents construction work and the built project.

Reference number:

AP178.S1.2001.PR04

Arrangement:
Material in this series was arranged by Álvaro Siza’s office and has been kept in this order.

Location:

Palma de Mallorca Spain

Credit line:
When citing the collection as a whole, use the citation: Álvaro Siza fonds, Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. When citing specific collection material, please refer to the object’s specific credit line.

Language of material:

Portuguese
Spanish

Related units of description:

Sketches for the Casa em Palma de Maiorca are also included in Siza's sketchbooks found in Series AP178.S2 of this fonds. Of note are sketchbooks 506 and 507.

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