The Minimalist White Prism Around Three Courtyards and Three Trees

The concept behind the Three Trees House was inspired by the context and construction tradition of the island of Ibiza. The white austerity of Ibiza’s cubic architecture is an iconic feature of the region. Simultaneously, the decision to use white prisms on a masonry wall base seeks to establish a dialogue between contemporary architectural abstraction and the solid tradition of dry-stone construction, thus creating a fusion of the modern and traditional in the house’s architecture. With a distinctly longitudinal proportion on a virtually flat terrain and amidst the landscaped spaces of neighboring houses, the plot lacks long vistas to which it can turn. This condition determines the introverted character of the project, where the architecture must create its own interior landscape to which it can open. Integrating outdoor spaces into the building volume is the most effective mechanism for shaping these transitional atmospheres. A continuous sequence of interior and exterior spaces organ