{"id":76448,"date":"2026-11-10T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/munarq-ofrece-en-cas-concos-una-vez-mas-una-leccion-de-arquitectura-nacida-del-lugar\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:52:07","slug":"in-cas-concos-munarq-once-again-offers-a-lesson-in-architecture-born-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/in-cas-concos-munarq-once-again-offers-a-lesson-in-architecture-born-of-place\/","title":{"rendered":"In Cas Concos, Munarq once again offers a lesson in architecture born of place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cas Concos des Cavaller belongs to that Mallorca which can only be understood when travelled slowly. It is a\u00a0llogaret<\/em>, one of those small rural settlements scattered across the interior of the island, where stone houses gather around the church and the day unfolds at the slow pace of the countryside. It lies within the municipality of Felanitx, in the south-east, a short distance from Santany\u00ed and the best-known coves of the coast, though its world is another, one of almond and fig trees, dry-stone walls and paths of reddish earth. It is an austere, ancient and deeply Mediterranean landscape, in which every building has had to earn its place with patience.<\/p>\n\n\n

There, on a rural estate of more than two hectares, Munarq<\/a> has built a house that starts from a question as simple as it is demanding, that of how to inhabit such a territory today while respecting its identity. The studio\u2019s answer begins with an attitude rather than a form. \u201cRather than asserting itself, the house listens\u201d, the architects explain. The house emerges from the logic of the place and seeks a measured rationality, legible at first sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An order born of vernacular architecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From the access path, a clear north\u2013south axis structures the project and establishes a symmetrical order that frames a central courtyard of restrained dimensions. Two balanced volumes flank this void and form a composition that recalls the vernacular typologies of the island, filtered through what the architects themselves call a rural rationalism. This first gesture is both spatial and symbolic, a quiet discipline that speaks of permanence, proportion and restraint.<\/p>\n\n\n

Seen from outside, the house reads as a composition of prisms of stepped heights. The main volume, the tallest, reveals a chimney with a cylindrical cap that introduces a sculptural gesture into the silhouette, while the pitched tiled roofs remain hidden behind the walls, so that from the ground only clean edges are perceived against the sky. Beside the courtyard, a masonry staircase set against the wall rises to the roof terrace and traces across the fa\u00e7ade a diagonal that the sun turns into a drawing. The entire envelope is finished in hand-applied lime mortar in earthen tones, whose variations in colour make the walls seem to rise from the same reddish ground that surrounds them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The central courtyard, flanked by the two volumes, opens onto the garden of native vegetation.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The volumes, finished in earth-toned lime mortar, cast precise shadows across the terraces.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The masonry staircase rising to the roof terrace, beside the saltwater pool.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The south fa\u00e7ade of the house, open to the countryside of Cas Concos.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Material sustains the argument of the project<\/h2>\n\n\n

The lime mortar is joined by continuous floors of microcement and polished concrete, iroko wood in the window frames and the kitchen, and solid oak in the furniture, a reduced palette that gives continuity to interior and exterior. Against the smooth surface of the renders, a lattice of mar\u00e9s blocks, the traditional Mallorcan sandstone, laid in a chequerboard pattern, encloses the small courtyard of the main suite, filters light and views, and casts onto the walls a weave of shadows that shifts with the hours. It is the most artisanal gesture in the house and also the one that best sums up the studio\u2019s long research into the materials of the island.<\/p>\n\n\n

Sustainability is understood here as an ethic in the use of resources. The house runs self-sufficiently on solar energy, purifies water through biological filtration and stores it in tanks, and is heated and cooled through underfloor systems. The garden, planted with lavender, dwarf fan palms, cacti and grasses over a layer of reddish gravel, extends the native vegetation of the surroundings, while the olive and carob trees around the house give it scale and shade.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The living room, with its curved fireplace and built-in masonry bench.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The kitchen, custom-made by Mobalco in iroko wood and stone.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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The dining area, beneath a large esparto pendant, extends towards the terrace.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The built-in bathtub of the main bathroom.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The outdoor courtyard of the main suite, enclosed by a mar\u00e9s lattice.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A house designed for an unhurried life<\/h2>\n\n\n

Domestic life unfolds along the axis, where private and shared spaces intertwine and thresholds blur. At the centre lies the large room that brings together living, dining and kitchen areas, beneath high ceilings and with wide sliding windows that extend it towards the terraces. The west wing houses the main bedroom, which opens onto a private terrace and a small courtyard, and a bathroom in which the monolithic bathtub and double basins seem carved from the same material as the walls. The east wing holds three further bedrooms, one with its own bathroom and two sharing another. A pantry, a laundry room and a guest toilet complete the programme without disturbing the clarity of the whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kitchen, by the Galician firm Mobalco, is made of iroko wood and stone and acts as the functional and aesthetic heart of the house. An island of visibly grained stone, resting on thick supports of the same material, stands before a run of iroko cabinets that frames the sink within a rendered niche. Above it floats a long linen pendant, and in the dining area a large esparto bell presides over the solid wood table. In the living room, a curved fireplace with a circular opening merges into a built-in masonry bench that runs around the perimeter of the room, a device drawn from Mediterranean vernacular architecture. Esparto baskets and rush-seated stools complete an interior where every object seems to belong to the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The house expands and contracts between its rooms and its sheltered outdoor spaces, so that everyday rituals remain tied to the climate and the land. The terraces wrap around the volumes and lead to a 24 m\u00b2 saltwater pool with a quartz finish, a still sheet of water that reflects the walls and the sky. The vertical wooden slats that soften the light in the dining area, the shadow of leaves on linen sheets or the glint of sun on the curve of the bathtub speak of an architecture completed by the passing hours and by the presence of those who live in it.<\/p>\n\n\n

This House in Cas Concos distils much of Munarq\u2019s thinking, its trust in tradition as a body of knowledge that can still be refined and its conviction that architecture must be born of the landscape. In a\u00a0llogaret<\/em>\u00a0where stone houses have gathered in silence around the church for centuries, the house joins that conversation in the same low voice, that of a work that prefers evolution to revolution and that time, lime and the light of the south-east will blend ever further into the almond fields around it.<\/p>\n\n

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Site plan.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Floor plan.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Axonometric view.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Project<\/strong>: House in Cas Concos.
Location<\/strong>: Cas Concos des Cavaller, Felanitx (Mallorca).
Completed<\/strong>: 2025.
Built area<\/strong>: 245 m\u00b2.
Architecture<\/strong>:\u00a0Munarq<\/a>. Pau Munar and Marc Peir\u00f3.
Photography<\/strong>:\u00a0Ricard L\u00f3pez<\/a>.
Kitchen<\/strong>:\u00a0Mobalco<\/a>.
Source<\/strong>: Munarq.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Marc Peir\u00f3 and Pau Munar, principal architects of Munarq.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Munarq<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Munarq is an architecture studio based in Mallorca, led by Pau Munar and Marc Peir\u00f3. Its work stems from a deep knowledge of the island where they live, and from a profound respect for it, a territory under urban and tourist pressure that is wearing down its ecosystems and altering its landscape. Its insular condition, which limits the materials available and the techniques possible, has become a fertile set of ground rules for the studio. The constraints of the context, whether natural or built, act as catalysts for each project and guide an architecture that seeks its answers in the territory itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this grows a body of material research sustained over time. Limestone, mar\u00e9s sandstone, earth, straw, posidonia and sheep\u2019s wool form a repertoire drawn from the immediate surroundings, able to respond effectively to the Mediterranean climate and to make each building belong to the ground it comes from. Munarq looks at Mallorca\u2019s building tradition with a critical, forward-looking attitude, far from nostalgia. It sees that tradition as a heritage that can still be refined, and defends regional identity against the uniformity of a globalised architecture. The studio prefers evolution to revolution, and that idea sums up much of its ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its approach to design rests on a dialogue between landscape and human intervention, in which each informs and enriches the other, and from which the genius loci<\/em>, the spirit of the place, emerges. Architecture, interior design and landscape design are conceived as a whole. The spaces balance intimacy and openness, and natural light transforms them throughout the day. Acoustics, texture and the play of light and shadow receive the same attention as form, because the studio understands architecture as an experience in which the senses, space and time converge. The passing of the seasons and the slow ageing of materials are part of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n

Collaboration with craftspeople, cultivated over many years in different parts of the world, is essential to its language. Inherited techniques, adapted to contemporary needs, give its works authenticity and a tactile quality that invites touch. The studio also operates as a flexible network, with a multidisciplinary team and no physical headquarters, which brings in different profiles according to the demands of each commission and works from the local in dialogue with international clients and collaborators. Its works include the House in Cas Concos, Ca na Pau in Binissalem, Ca S\u2019Alou and the Son Juliana winery in Santa Eug\u00e8nia, projects that aim for architecture to emerge from the landscape and to help continue writing its story.<\/p>\n\n

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Munarq
<\/strong>Mallorca
+34 647 870 067
hola@munarq.es<\/a>
munarq.es<\/a>
@munarq.es<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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