Politics

Living and seeing the history of the house: the renovation maintains its essence and changes its uses

The renovation of this house in the center of Mahón is a piecemeal project carried out over time, as are many projects that are carried out as needs arise and, above all, at the pace often dictated by possibilities. This is how Menorcan architect Emma Martí approached the renovation of a party-walled building she and her partner purchased, planning to give it all the uses their lives required. In fact, as she points out, the purchase of the house could only be undertaken if it met the three main needs they had in this regard at the time: it had to be the family home, but it also had to house her architecture studio and her partner's osteopathy practice. This would offset the investment in a house located in the first growth outside the walls of Mahón and which, despite originating in the 18th century, was never a stately or bourgeois home, but had housed a shop on the ground floor and the family living quarters on the two upper floors.

The renovation of this house in the center of Mahón is a piecemeal project carried out over time, as are many projects that are carried out as needs arise and, above all, at the pace often dictated by possibilities. This is how Menorcan architect Emma Martí approached the renovation of a party-walled building she and her partner purchased, planning to give it all the uses their lives required. In fact, as she points out, the purchase of the house could only be undertaken if it met the three main needs they had in this regard at the time: it had to be the family home, but it also had to house her architecture studio and her partner's osteopathy practice.

This would offset the investment in a house located in the first growth outside the walls of Mahón and which, despite originating in the 18th century, was never a stately or bourgeois home, but had housed a shop on the ground floor and the family living quarters on the two upper floors..