The Olive Houses / mar plus ask
High up in the Tramuntana Mountains of Mallorca with views overlooking the Mediterranean Sea we have built two small off-grid houses. The houses are surrounded in all directions by thousand year old olive trees standing on man-made terraces of dry stacked stone, where only the wind and the bells of the grassing sheep can be heard. The incredible scenic mountain area is one of the most beautiful examples we have on earth of how well wild and human-made nature can intertwine seamlessly, a rare example where Man has given more beauty - than he has taken away from nature - which brought it into the Unesco World Heritage list.
- architects: mar plus ask
- Location: Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Piet Albert Goethals
- Area: 25.0 m2