Minimum Documentation Fiche 2003

Minimum Documentation Fiche 2003

composed by national / regional working party of: DOCOMOMO Ibérico

0.1 Picture of building/ site

depicted item: Can Pep Simó Housing Estate source: Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico date: 1995

1. Identity of building/ group of buildings/ group of buildings/

landscape/ garden

1.1 current name of building: Urbanización Can Pep Simó/ Can Pep Simó Housing Estate 1.2 variant or former name: Urbanización en Cap Martinet 1.3 number & name of street: Urbanización

1.4 town: Santa Eulària del Riu, Ibiza 1.5 province: Islas Baleares

1.7 country: Spain 1.8 national topographical grid reference:

1.9 classification / typology: Residential (RES)

1.10 protection status & date The building started a process to become BIC (Bien de Interéss Cultural) protected by the Balearic

Government. In 2004, before the process was completed, the Balearic Government stopped the process. The architects association in the Balearic Islands has started a legal procedure against the local government in order to pursue the protection process.

2. History of building

The housing estate was promoted by Josep Lluis Sert. The original brief URBANIZACIÓN CAN PEP SIMÓ. Josep Lluís Sert, 1.964.

Cap Martinet, Santa Eulària del Riu

Houses: 1.964 – 1.970

Casa Jutta, Josep Lluís Sert 1.965 Casa Valls, Josep Lluís Sert 1.968 Casa Gomis, Josep Lluís Sert 1.968 Casa Sert, Josep Lluís Sert 1.968

Casa Francisco Sert, Josep Lluís Sert 1.968 Casa Blanca, Germán Rodriguez Arias 1.968 Casa Zao-Wo-Ki, Josep Lluís Sert 1.968 El Bungalow, Germán Rodriguez Arias 1.969 Casa Illescas, Albert Illescas 1.969 Casa Zalewski, Joseph Zalewski 1.970 Casa Marcarelli, Jean Jacques Copetta 1.970 Apartamentos Es Fumerals, Josep Lluís Sert 1.970 Casa Dodane, Erwin Broner 1.970

Houses: 1.971 – 1.987

Casa Gutiérrez, Jean Jacques Copetta 1.972

Apartamentos Ses Veles, Ferrán de los Santos/Juan Mª Pancual 1.976-78 Viviendas Sa Talaia, Javier Flaquer 1.979

Casa Gili, J.A.Martínez/E.Torres 1.985-87 2.2 dates: commission/completion See 2.1.

2.3 architectural and other designers See 2.1.

2.4 others associated with building The author of the urbanisation project was Josep Lluís Sert, in collaboration with Manuel

Font and Germán Rodríguez Arias. The technical architect was Antoni Ferrán.

2.5 significant alterations with dates There is no detailed information regarding the original houses. But in general they seem to have been kept as they were. Other houses have been added that alter the overall vision of the housing estate.

2.6 current use Residential

2.7 current condition Good

3. Description

The housing estate was promoted and designed by Josep Lluis Sert in 1964, on a hillside facing Ibiza's city and its bay. Sert's project incorporates in its language techniques, elements, textures and colours taken from the local tradition and the site. The disposition and settlement of the houses as a whole is arranged in order to be perceived as a small village and to integrate in the topography.

Such an arrangement finds its sources in the Island tradition of terracing the hill slopes in order to cultivate them. Following the islands tradition, the project builds stone walls to contain the soil and arranges them in a linear way. The houses are built displaced from one another so each one of them has views.

The roads are narrow and are just the minimum side to connect the different terraces.

The projects includes independent houses and a group of 13 row houses with a community pool and garden.

Together with the quality of the architecture it is also important to point the overall design strategy and the common language used by all the architects implied in the design of the different houses.

3.2 construction

The houses are built with local techniques and materials: sustaining walls and pillars, and one-way slabs.

3.3 context

The housing estate was developed following a set of internal rules that determined the constructions. Any new house or any alteration of the existing ones had to be approved by the developers, only white or earth colours could be used in the outside, no artificial stone was allowed, nor were fences or TV antennas.

4. Evaluation

Since the thirties Sert had experimented with new materials and techniques, first in his projects with in Spain with the GATCPAC, latter in the United States. When he starts thinking about building his own house in Ibiza (he still was Dean at Harvard at the time) he goes back to the Mediterranean myth of a "pure" architecture arose from tradition.

This complex doesn't intend to develop new techniques but tries to bring back traditional local techniques and materials and integrate them in a modern language.

4.2 social

4.3 cultural & aesthetic See 3.1.

4.4 historical

In 1934-1935 Sert had built a small group of weekend houses near Barcelona in El Garraf. These houses were designed to have the minimum necessary space to spent a weekend and have elements in common with the ones in Can Pep Simó in the way they deal with local tradition and materials. In 1964, the situation is very different from the one in 1934; tourism is starting to become and industry in Spain and some areas in the coast along the Mediterranean Sea are developing plans to house large tourist complexes. In Punta Martinet Sert and his colleagues try to defend a territory from the invasion of a unthoughtful tourism often built in an international style that would destroy the landscape.

5. Documentation

- AA VV, Erwin Broner, Ciudadano, arquitecto, pintor, COAB, 1980 - AA VV, Arquitectura en Ibiza, COAB, 1983

- Arquitectura nº 247, COAM, Madrid, 1984

- Arquitectura y espacio rural en Ibiza, COAB, Demarcació Eivissa/Formentera, Eivissa, 2002 - Arquitectura nº 253 COAM, Madrid, 1985

- Arquitectura nº 269 COAM, Madrid, 1987

- BORRÁS, Mª. Luisa, Sert, Arquitectura mediterránea, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1974

- COSTA, Xavier, LANDROVE Susana, coord., Arquitectura del Movimiento Moderno 1925-1965, Registro Docomomo Ibérico, pág. 289, Docomomo Ibérico/ Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, 1996

- Erwin Broner, 1898-1971, D’A nº 11 y 12, COAB, 1994

- PIZZA, Antonio, J. Ll. Sert y el Mediterráneo, COAC, Barcelona, 1997

- ROVIRA, Josep M., Urbanización en Punta Martinet, Ibiza, 1966-1971, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Andalucía Oriental, Delegación de Almería, Almería, 1996

- TORRES, Elías, "Guía de Arquitectura de Ibiza y Formentera (Islas Pitiusas)", in Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo nº 142/143, COAC, Barcelona, 1980

5.2 visual material attached

- Fondo documental de Archivos de Arquitectura. Siglo XX, Colegio de Almería. Photographs from Gabriela Kacelnik, Antonio Ramis Ramos.

5.3 rapporteur/date Gabriela Kacelnik. Susana Landrove June 2004

6. Fiche report examination by ISC/R

date of examination: approval:

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