isla


The Banyalbufar office (LDD)


Office


isla is a Mallorca based architecture and design practice founded by Marta Colón de Carvajal and Juan Palencia.

Working with a contextual approach—starting from the place and the culture—isla focuses on revealing potentialities of what is already there, underlining the craftsmanship and knowledge of those who came before in order to craft a radically contemporary approach to each project. Beyond a predefined style or aesthetic, the office produces appropriate responses to each individual context, in collaboration with all the agents who are involved.

Palma HQ
Tous i Maroto 12 Entlo B
Palma, 07001, Mallorca
Islas Baleares, Spain
@iiiiiiiiiisla 
+34 871 036 937
info@isla-architects.com
press@isla-architects.com

Marta Colón de Carvajal +34 684 50 23 58
Juan Palencia +34 684 50 23 57
María G. Bas +34 659 39 13 23
María de Sotto +34 629 47 83 72


(Nadia del Pozo)


Marta Colón de Carvajal Salís (Palma de Mallorca, 1982) is a licensed Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). Since 2008, she has worked in local & international offices in Madrid, Paris & Basel, engaging in various projects, from housing to museums, and different phases, from concept design to construction. From 2010 to 2017 she worked for Herzog & de Meuron, and took part in different large-scale projects such as the Museum in Doha, Qatar, BBVA Headquarters, Madrid, and the Tour Triangle, Paris, amongst others.

marta@isla-architects.com
Juan Palencia de Sarriá (Madrid, 1981) is a licensed Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), co-founder and curator of TEOK Basel, Santiago de Chile, and workshop leader at AAVS Mallorca. Following his training, Juan worked with award winning studios, among them Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos, Estudio Luis Úrculo and HHF Architects. From 2013 to 2017 he collaborates with Burckhardt Partner as a Design Architect, working in various projects in Switzerland, such as the Grosspeter Tower in Basel, and the Schindler Headquarters in Ebikon.

juan@isla-architects.com



Interior (LDD)


Ramona (LDD)

Team


We are currently collaborating with Cristina Gutiérrez Chevalier, María Gutiérrez Bas, María de Sotto , Elena Fernández, Ramona Panibud'laska, and Silvia Fernández Berzosa.

Previous collaborators: Víctor Vandenbossche, Clara Bauzá Mora, Nargiz Nabirova,  Nelson Manuel Fidalgo Magro, María de Sotto,  Cristina Fernández Fernández,  Chiara Lieberman,  Annachiara Trabacchin, Alberto Gracia Dorado, Olga Karlander, Joan Pau Bujosa Font, Francisca Miranda Turu, Leticia Olalquiaga, George Pickering, Katerina Kulanova, Vojtech Rada, Tonina March, Ana Olalquiaga, Blanca García Gardelegui and Fanny Christinaz.

Strategic advisor: Diego Palencia de Sarriá

Jobs


We are looking for granted intern architects (eramus+, etc), for autumn-ointer, minimum 3 months (PDF format 10 mb maximum to jobs@-isla-architects.com).  We always accept spontaneous job applications, we’ll try to reply to all of them.

Projects


001. Ca’n Rei house, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Self-commission - Refurbishment project - Built
002. Sa Vinyassa house, Estellencs, Mallorca
Commission - Refurbishment project - Built
021. Ca’n Julen house, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Commission - Refurbishment project - Built
022. The wall, Palma, Mallorca
Commission - Project - Built
025. Amargura twin houses, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Commission - Project - Ongoing
030. Estudio Isla, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Self-commission - Project - Built
035. Garrigue house, Algaida, Mallorca
Commission / with Fidalgo Magro Arquitecto - Project - Built
X001. S’arenal, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Self-commission - Research Project - Ongoing
036. Gozona house, Luanco, Asturias 
Commission - Project - with Mori Meana Architecture - Built
037. Townhouse, Biniamar, Mallorca
Self-commission - Refurbishment project - Built
038. Lover’s house 2, Cala Llamp, Mallorca
Commission - New house project - Ongoing
039. Tiny house, Mallorca
Commission - Project - Phase I built
040. Marge house, Valldemossa, Mallorca
Commission - Project - Built
042. Fénix Apartment, Palma, Mallorca
Commission - Refurbishment project - Built
043/049.︎︎︎105. Contramuelle Mollet, Palma, Mallorca
Urban planning and architecture - Project - Ongoing
044. Twin house, Esporles, Mallorca
Commission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
045. Es Llogaret, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Commission - Project - Ongoing
048. Es Rafal, Sóller, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
050. C’an Ulises, Es Grau, Maó, Menorca
Comission - New house project - Ongoing
051. A&G workshop, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Comission - Project - Ongoing
052.︎︎︎108. Loggia Baseliana, Basel, Switzerland
Project - Completed
053. C&M house, Alcudia, Mallorca
Comission - New house project / Ongoing
054. E&A apartment, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
055. E&N house, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
056. S’Arracó house, Andratx, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
057. Siriana house, Campos, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment p roject - Ongoing
058. Vinya de’n Term, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
059. Villa Valldemossa, Valldemossa, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
060. Punta de S’aguila house, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
061. U house, Palma, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
063. Ses Figuerases, Banyalbufar, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
065. Moon house, Esporles, Mallorca
Comission - New house project - Ongoing
067. Son Catlar house, Campos, Mallorca
Comission - New house project - Ongoing
068. Sa Torre houses, Llucmajor, Mallorca
Comission - New houses project - Ongoing
069. Kiev apartment, Kiev, Ucrania
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
070. Ulgueira house, Colares, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
071. Permanyer house, Barcelona, Catalunya
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
210. As Found, 110 Inca, Mallorca
Exhibition - Product design - Done
072. Sa Cabaneta house, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
073. Cavallería apartments, Palma, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
074. Alaró house, Mallorca
Comission - Refurbishment project - Ongoing
075. Cas Catalá house, Mallorca,
Comission - New house project - Ongoing

Competitions


100. W+O Escol.leta Llubí, Llubí, Mallorca
Architectural Competition / with Fanny Christinaz
101. Maritime tradition, Palma, Mallorca
Ideas competition - Project - Mention
102A. Blau, Palma, Mallorca
Ideas Competition / with Blanca Gardelegui - Installation
102B. Boirós, Palma, Mallorca
Ideas Competition / with Blanca Gardelegui - Installation - Honourable mention
103.︎︎︎104. The sea is my land, Palma, Mallorca
Ideas competition - Project - 2nd Prize ex aequo
104. ︎︎︎043/049. The sea is my land, Palma, Mallorca
Architecture competition -  Urban planning and architecture project- 1st prize
105. Open Windows, Münich, Germany
Ideas competition / with Fidalgo Magro Arquitecto - Exhibition  project - 2nd Prize
106. Tautos Namai, Vilnus, Lithania
Achitecture competition - Auditorium project / with Burckhardt Partner
108.︎︎︎052. Loggia Baseliana, Basel, Switzerland
Basel Pavillon, AWB 2022
Architecture competition - Temporary pavilion project - 1st prize 

Lectures and talks


To build or not to build - Loggia Baseliana - TU Berlin
Unit Jacob van Rijs - Adela Bravo - May 2024

Desingcrush w/ Paparkone
Cosentino City - Link to youtube  -March 2024

PechaKucha - Fragments
110 Inca Mallorca - Chiara Ferrari - March 2024

Znüni um 10 - Loggia Baseliana
TU Berlin - Bene Wahlbrink - November 2023

El futuro Museo Marítimo de Palma
Openhouse Palma - November 2023

Archipelago - AAVS  Learning from Water
AA School of Architecture - August 2023

Life After Life. The Basel Pavillon – Strategies of Reuse
HEAD Maia - Vera Sacchetti & Chrissie Muhr - November 2022

Loggia Baseliana
USI Mendrisio
Atelier Banchini - November 2022

Loggia Baseliana
Parsons NYC
Sustainable systems - November 2022

Future Maritime Museum of Mallorca
Biennal de Pensament Palma - Link - October 2022

IN&OUT Prácticas interdisciplinares
UNAB Campus Creativo - Santiago, Chile - June 2022

Loggia Baseliana
Architectural Coffe Breaks (ACB)
- L’atelier PE - Online - April 2022

ETH Studio Jon Avermaete
Loggia Baseliana
Husner AG, Frick, Switzerland
March 2022

UNAB Campus Creativo
Loggia Baseliana
Online / Chile
March 2022

ETSA Madrid
Loggia Baseliana
Madrid, Spain
February 2022

ETSA Madrid
ITINERARIOS_MPAA
Madrid, Spain
December 2021

UNAB Campus Creativo
IN&OUT Prácticas interdisciplinares
Santiago, Chile
November 2021

HEAD Geneve
Studio Slonimsky (Kosmos architects)
Geneva, Switzerland
December 2019

INDA, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
January 2018



At Unit Kosmos (Head Geneve)


At ACB (l’atelier)


At Atelier Banchini (USI)


At Unit  J. van Rijs
(TU Berlin)


Teaching


AA Visiting school Mallorca #2
Architecture Association School of Architecture
Learning from stone: Postextractivism and Hedonism
With Leonid Slonimskiy (Kosmos), Blanca Gardelegui, Guillem Aloy
January 2025
More info soon.

AA Visiting school Mallorca #1
Architecture Association School of Architecture
Learning from water: Hydrotechnology and architecture for urban and landscape ecologies
With Leonid Slonimskiy (Kosmos), Blanca Gardelegui, Guillem Aloy
August-September 2023



Teacher at Workshop 4+5
Taller Cortez-Palencia con Pamela Cortez
Andrés Bello Campus Creativo
Santiago de Chile
2023-2024

Jury workshop
HEAD Maia
Life After Life. The Basel Pavillon – Strategies of Reuse
Vera Sacchetti & Chrissie Muhr
November 2022

Teacher at Workshop 4+5
Taller Medrano-Palencia con Gabriela Medrano
Andrés Bello Campus Creativo
Santiago de Chile
2021-2023

Jury Diploma, Camilo Palma
Andrés Bello Campus Creativo
Santiago de Chile
2022

Jury Mid Term, Unit Leonid Slonimskiy 
HEAD archi University
Geneva, Switzerland
December 2019

Jury Workshop
INDA Program, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
January 2018

#fatigue Workshop, with Luis Úrculo
INDA Program, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
January 2018

Camouflage, assistant for Luis Úrculo
Vitra Boisbuchet Workshops
Boisbuchet, France
June 2012

Exhibitions


AWB 2022
CIVIC HGK
Basel Pavillon - Loggia Baseliana
Basel, Switzerland
May 2022

Save the date
Huguet Mallorca
Lover’s House
August 2021

Concurso Contramuelle
COAIB Mallorca
Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Proposal Tradición marítima
March 2017

Publications


Our work has been published in different media and publications like Monocle, Wallpaper, Dezeen, AD, etc. For any press inquiry please contact us at press@isla-architects.com