Quatre Porxos House aspires to recreate the atmosphere of Menorca’s traditional “cases de lloc”: a protective space generated through subtraction, chiselled. However, its simple and solid exterior hides a complex, luminous interior.

Through its four triangular porches, one on each orientation, the house is always connected to its surrounding garden. The “dislocation” of the interior layout begins in the main rooms and extends to the bathrooms, where shelves, showers and skylights are triangular. Double mirrors placed inside the skylight prisms maximise the inflow of light and create surprising kaleidoscopic-solar effects.

The house is a large “instrument” of solar perception, making evident the continuous change of natural light throughout the day and, day by day, across the four seasons of the year.