Bora Headquarters, Mallorca Building, Spanish Architecture, Balearic Islands Design, Images
Bora Headquarters on Mallorca
Large Residential Building Development in Spain – design by SAOTA
28 Feb 2018
Bora Headquarters
Architects & Interior Architects: SAOTA
Location: Mallorca, Illes Balears
Bora Headquarters

This relaxed resort-style home and work environment, a short flight from Germany, blends into its surrounding bucolic landscape through its use of form and locally inspired materials.

The complex, steeply sloping, site required careful placement of the building to provide comfortable pedestrian and vehicular access. Its length allowed for the creation of a linear terraced building with every important room, on both the terrace and bedroom level, having uninterrupted views with an emphasis on outdoor living.
The linear arrangement is interspersed with green pause spaces on both levels. Stone walls act as holding elements at the ends of the building. The three bedroom blocks on the upper level are separated with lush courtyards all tied together by the steel holding edge beams. The building is a fusion of a contemporary approach with regional influences. The traditional curved tiled roofs in the area inspired the exterior upper eaves and internal gallery where the forms are re-interpreted as a series of stone vaults.

The building is layered in the use of materials including plaster, stone, wooden pergolas and shutters, aluminium and large expanses of...