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4 Skylights 1 Terrace House
Together and alone: a new storey in a terraced housing block in Mercadal, Menorca, with many skylights, few materials and a corner terrace with pleasant views, built for a mother and her child above her parents’ home.
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This new home for a recently divorced woman and her child was built on top of her parents’ residence.
The pleasant views from the corner terrace, and the use of many skylights and very few materials (white plaster on walls, continuous cement as pavement and pine wood on windows and doors), generated a clear, luminous and comfortable interior ready to welcome the new dreams of their two young inhabitants.
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