15- House Ques: Rationalist architecture

©Text i fotos: Àngel Gené i Ramis; traducció a l'anglès: Montserrat Casanovas i Stobart; suport informàtic: Martí Gené i Ramis

In the early 1930s, began to notice in Mallorca influences of architecture linked to the modern, rationalist architecture. So many buildings were built this house as Ques. Rationalist ideas about architecture is already beginning to enter in Majorca in 1928 with articles published by the writer Villalonga and architecture student Francesc Casas in the newspaper El Dia. It presents the main ideas of Le Corbusier, ideas that are the basis of rationalist architecture. Casas and other mallorquins architects formed in Barcelona knew where the Catalan rationalist group activities, very active. So in some ways what happened with the rationalist architecture is analogous to what happens with modernist architecture: it develops from the influences of Barcelona, That tells us that, in addition to what we talked previously, the island treballassin rationalist architects of the Principality, as Monravà Casas Lamolla or Mestres. Work rationalists shutters were many more that a significant level, of which tells us this magnificent façade Ques.

The building is designed by the architect Enric Juncosa, the year 1932. The facade is predominantly horizontal, horizontal gaps to govern well-defined windows, which follows the trends advocated by Le Corbusier and rationalist architecture. No doubt this is possible thanks to a concrete structure that underpinned leaves open the facade of its function supported, so you can make any opening. So the light comes more freely inside the building. Some pairs of columns to the last floor, we illustrate this innovation structural concrete based.
On the large horizontal cantilever we have two semi-circular eaves that provide a truly modern air in the attic when it is finished off with the building.
Yet this building reveals a still hesitant rationalism, limited by several things such as use of the interior walls, too deep edification, rear facade with openings that do not match the floor ... Hesitation can be resolved should be referred to later in other works, but the Civil War (1936-1939) strontium these trials Majorcan architecture to join the modern movement.
Rationalist ideas about architecture began to be introduced to Mallorca about articles published by Villalonga and Francesc Casas in 1928. Rationalist architecture will begin to develop under the influence of the Principality, in the 1930s, numerous works and a more than significant level as this.

-Author: Enric Juncosa
-Vintage-style: 1932, Rationalist
-Analysis-formal dominance of the horizontal rectangle windows also, thanks to a concrete structure that releases the front of the function based. The columns are the penultimate floor in a sample. The semi-circular eaves of the attic air give it a truly modern.
-Comment: rationalism still hesitant because of:
Using the interior walls
Excessive deep edification
Rear openings that do not correspond with the plant