Designed in 2019 by Gras Reynés Arquitectos, this summer house for a Barcelona family is located on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Villa Malgrats honours the Malgrats islands just in front of the house; takes the name and the concept is conceived around the magnificent views to the islands.

Description
A great location in the southwest of Mallorca by the coast, but with a house and a road in between the property and the sea.
The goal of the design is to bring the islands to the house and embrace it, no matter if the property is not front line.
The plot, almost flat, sits opposite the coastline at the other side of the road. The house in order to get the best views and get some distance from the road is pushed to the back of the plot as much as possible, so the house gets the highest level and some distance-buffer to the road, with the garden between the house and the road. The concept of the house enhances the outdoor Mediterranean living where the outdoor spaces, terraces are as important or more than the interior spaces: the house projects to the outside, to the sea, as much as the regulation and the technology of the structure-balconies permits. An outdoor routing connecting the garden with all the levels of the house is created: all the outdoor spaces, can be reached and used without entering the house, maximizing the outdoor living experience.
First the garden on the ground floor, made of low maintenance Mediterranean species and stone walls where...