Català Atlas made by Cresques Abraham dated 1375

MAPPING AS TOOLS TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE

The images below are based on satellite photographs and interpreted by Joan Bauza, geographer.

WHAT IS AN aulet?

An “aulet” that can be traduced as a “small room”, is an enclosure formed by carob or oak trees in the unirrigated plots. They were planted on purpose or maintained from the preexisting forests in order that the cattle, sheeps or pigs could eat their fruits and graze in their shade.

ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS IN THE TERRITORY OF MALLORCA

"Every man and every community has to find their own model based on climate, customs and materials. From the ecological viewpoint the “international” style has been a disaster for the whole planet, because it made that traditional systems that worked perfectly were abandoned ".  Pietro Laureano

the materIality of the island of mallorca

"The philosophy and know-how of the anonymous builders presents the largest untapped source of architectural inspiration for industrial man".  Bernard Rudofsky