La construcción del territorio de Ibiza: urbanismo, paisaje, arquitectura

Abstract

Rural architecture of the island of Ibiza is the construction of the island territory, a body formed by walls, land terraces, paths, etc., covering the entire island, with the rural homestead as its cell. This is the minimum territorial and social unit, formed by agricultural spaces, among which the dwelling’s volumes are prominent. So, in the territory of Ibiza, the concepts of local house architecture and landscape architecture can be unified. The work is based on an analysis of the rural space by landscape layers or elements, and by progressive zooms (from the drawings on a scale of 1:500, 1:1500 and 1:7500 of the most significant dwellings built around the springs of Morna and Atzaró to a global reading of the island on a scale of 1:175.000). It studies the relations that the territory’s construction elements (terrace walls, valley enclosures, water courses, road network, rural houses, etc.) establish with the topography.