new private 3-family residence, north coast, can picafort, majorca
the project is conceived as a four-storey, three-unit multi-family building with underground parking, deriving its architectural identity from the precise interplay of layering, displacement, and climatic filtering. The building mass does not follow the additive logic of stacked apartments; rather, it is organised as a differentiated spatial matrix in which volumes intersect, shift against one another, and interlock vertically.
From this arrangement emerges a residential figure of considerable complexity, one whose expression does not rely on formal gesture alone, but is directly generated from typology, topography, construction, and climate.
The project comprises three residential units, two of them configured as duplex apartments. Their arrangement follows an adaptive split-level logic inscribed into the natural slope of the site, allowing the building to be read as a three-dimensional spatial system.
The floor plans are not organised as repetitive storey-by-storey diagrams, but as an interwoven spatial structure, a kind of “Tetris architecture” in which individual living zones partially overlap, shift in relation to one another, and are vertically stacked.
This results in differentiated interiors with specific visual relationships, carefully calibrated level changes, and a strong spatial identity for each unit. At the same time, the ensemble remains legible as a coherent whole.
All units respond directly to the site’s topography. The floor plans are adaptively embedded into the terrain and conceived as split-level systems with varying room heights. This finely tuned organisation generates spatial dynamism and lends the building’s interior a distinctive sense of depth.
Expansive moments, compressed transitions, and offset levels create a domestic choreography that clearly departs from conventional multi-family housing typologies. Clear heights reach up to 3.10 metres, reinforcing the sense of generosity, openness, and measured proportion.
At the centre of each unit are open living landscapes with fluid transitions between living, dining, and kitchen areas. These spaces are not conceived as strictly separated rooms, but as continuous sequences articulated through light, material continuity, furnishing, and precisely framed sightlines.
The result is a plan of great everyday usability and, at the same time, remarkable spatial naturalness. Each of the three residences contains three double bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms. This programme is complemented by an additional guest room or study, capable of responding to different ways of living, whether as a home office, retreat, or temporary sleeping space. The private zones are clearly organised without being detached from the openness of the overall spatial continuum.
A key quality of 2409 lies in the close interweaving of interior and exterior space. Multiple outdoor terraces, pergolas, and balconies extend the apartments into open-air living areas and generate a sequence of intermediate zones with varying degrees of protection.
These exterior spaces are not subsequent additions, but integral components of the architectural concept. They structure daylight, shading, views, and privacy, and make a decisive contribution to the building’s climatic and atmospheric quality. This is particularly evident in the roofscape, conceived as a fully usable additional level.
It is not merely the termination of the built volume, but an essential part of the spatial concept, completing the building’s vertical stratification with another layer of outdoor living.
In total, the project incorporates three swimming pools. Two are located within the garden areas of the lower units and are directly connected to their private outdoor spaces. A third pool is positioned on the roof and assigned to the roofscape.
This distribution reinforces the idea of dwelling organised in layers, unfolding not only within the built volume but also through differentiated exterior spaces. Garden, terrace, pergola, balcony, and rooftop thus become interrelated components of a continuous open-space system, allowing each unit a specific balance of openness and retreat.
The façades of 2409 are defined by Mallorcan persianas which, as a mobile, projected layer, shape both the external appearance and the climatic performance of the building. This architecture of filters, slats, and shutters draws on local building traditions without lapsing into regionalism.
It is interpreted here as a contemporary membrane architecture: a semi-transparent secondary plane mediating between interior and exterior, regulating light, filtering views, and allowing shading to be controlled with precision. Through the interplay of opening and closure, the façade changes continuously and gives the building a lively, deeply articulated tectonic character.
This projected layer also assumes a central bioclimatic function. It acts as a thermal buffer, reduces solar loads, improves the microclimate of the intermediate zones, and thereby supports the building’s overall energy performance.
In this sense, the façade is not an envelope in the conventional understanding, but an active part of a multi-layered ecological system. The architecture derives its presence precisely from this interrelation of atmosphere, function, and constructive precision.
Structurally, 2409 is based on CLT construction. The use of cross-laminated timber enables a resource-efficient, CO₂-reduced building method while also providing the structural clarity required for the complex interlocking of split-level and duplex typologies. The choice of material follows not only ecological considerations, but also an architectural ambition: timber shapes the interiors with a calm, warm, and tactically precise atmosphere while simultaneously forming the structural basis for the differentiated spatial organisation.
In combination with the mineral volumes of the more solid building elements, it produces a carefully balanced relationship between lightness and substance, openness and protection.
The building’s material palette as a whole is conceived as sustainable, durable, and resource-conscious. Robust, repairable, and visually restrained materials are employed, lending the project a quiet sense of self-evidence.
Light mineral surfaces enter into dialogue with the warm timber structures of the persianas, pergolas, balconies, and interiors. This carefully balanced material palette strengthens the connection between construction, climate, and atmosphere, while anchoring the project in a Mediterranean context without relying on formal cliché.
In energy terms as well, 2409 is conceived as a future-oriented residential building. The project follows an energy-plus approach in which passive and active systems are precisely interlinked. The projected façade membrane, the formation of thermal buffer zones, the compact volumetric organisation, and the sustainable timber construction form the basis of the passive strategy. This is complemented by multiple heat pumps, calibrated to the requirements of a multi-family building and enabling efficient climate control.
Sustainability is therefore not understood as an added technical layer, but as an integral component of the design, from construction and envelope to patterns of use.
2409 thus formulates a distinct typology of dense residential living in which spatial generosity is derived not from floor area alone, but from section, layering, vertical development, climatic intelligence, and the quality of transitions.
The project combines the precision of timber construction with a Mediterranean filter architecture; it unites the openness of contemporary living patterns with the protection of multi-layered envelopes, and links the logic of the terrain with a carefully composed vertical organisation.
The result is a building that can be understood neither as a conventional apartment block nor as a mere collection of independent units, but as a spatially dense, constructively precise, and ecologically responsible ensemble.
In its architectural attitude, 2409 is a house of graduated transitions: between terrain and built volume, between floors and half-levels, between structure and membrane, between interior and landscape. It is precisely this controlled permeability that defines the project’s quality.
Here, dwelling is not understood as a static typology, but as a layered, atmospherically dense, and carefully choreographed experience developed from site, climate, material, and use.
project: 2409
size: confidencial
construction area: confidencial
client: confidencial
location: north coast, can picafort, majorca
type: new customer mult-family private property
team (building): jle
team (interior design): jle
team (landscape): jle
responsible architects: jle
