proyectos

Life Reusing Posidonia

Illes Balears

Life Reusing Posidonia is a development of 14 social rental homes in Sant Ferran de ses Roques (Formentera), designed by architects from the IBAVI (Balearic Housing Institute) and completed in 2017 with funding from the European LIFE+ programme for adaptation to climate change. The building works as a prototype of hyperlocal architecture: it uses dried posidonia as roof insulation, an endemic seagrass collected from the island's beaches and sun-dried by local workers, which requires no treatment because sea salt acts as a natural preservative and biocide, and is laid compacted on recycled pallets. Monitored results from the LIFE programme confirmed a 60% reduction in construction-related emissions, compliance with in-use energy and water consumption targets, the creation of 41 local jobs and a cost overrun of only 5% compared with a conventional development. Award-winning and internationally recognised, it is the Spanish benchmark for public housing built with very low-footprint local resources.

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Projects

Region

Illes Balears

Official website

reusingposidonia.com