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Emissions is a photography project developed for La Biennale di Venezia 2025 – Spanish Pavilion: Internalities, architectures for territorial equilibrium, curated by Manuel Bouzas and Roi Salgueiro. Nowadays is exhibited in one of the halls.

All pictures are located in Balearic Islands and support the investigations by Carles Oliver and David Mayol about emissions and construction.

  • Emissions – Productive landscapes

    Son Moragues pine forest, Serra de Tramuntana

  • Emissions – Productive landscapes

    Clay quarry of Bandris tile factory in Manacor

  • Emissions – Productive landscapes

    Ca’s Vilafranquer ‘marès’ sandstone quarry, in Petra

  • Emissions – Productive landscapes

    Berm of dead Neptune grass leaves on the coast of Llucmajor

  • Emissions – Preserving sandstone

    40x40x80 cm sandstone blocks extraction in Ca’s Vilafranquer

  • Emissions – Preserving sandstone

    Pep, Alejandro and Toni at the block extraction machine

  • Emissions – Preserving sandstone

    Juan Manuel placing the standard 40x40x80 cm sandstone block in the cutting machine to obtain 5, 10, 15 or 20 cm thick pieces

  • Emissions – Preserving sandstone

    The use of sandstone reduces embodied emissions by more than 50%

  • Emissions – Recovering timber harvesting

    Process of soaking Pinus halepensis wood in a pool in Son Moragues.

  • Emissions – Recovering timber harvesting

    Pinus halepensis forest management in Son Moragues.

  • Emissions – Recovering timber harvesting

    Jefferson working on forest management in Lloret. Controlled logging is compatible with ecosystem conservation and provides local, low-emission resources.

  • Emissions – Recovering timber harvesting

    Jefferson working on forest management in Lloret. Controlled logging is compatible with ecosystem conservation and provides local, low-emission resources.

  • Emissions – Upgrading of earth-based products industries

    Tile driying room at the Soler pottery in Felanitx

  • Emissions – Upgrading of earth-based products industries

    Joaquín and Miquel place the tiles for firing in the biomass kiln.

  • Emissions – Upgrading of earth-based products industries

    Chaiel introducing feeding the kiln at the Bandrís tile factory.

  • Emissions – Upgrading of earth-based products industries

    Said finishig a compressed earth hydraulic tile at the Huguet factory.

  • Emissions – Ghiorghio and the recycled sandstone urban mining blocks from the demolition of the existing building on the site.

    25 temporary cohousing units for elderly people in Palma. Project by H Arquitectes

  • Emissions – Building with the landscape

    Local sandstone debris ready to be upcycled

  • Emissions – Antoni,Terra and the first carpentry made with Pinus halepensis of local production since mass tourism interrupted the productive territory management

    Amarar Workshop. Refurbishment of Son Puigdorfila Nou, Palma
    Aulets Arquitectes + Amarar Tramuntana

  • Emissions – Samanta, Zoe and the simple compression sandstone vault of their home. It provides the thermal mass needed to face the heat in summer

    6 Social housing units on rental basis in Santa Eugènia. Project by Carles Oliver and Xim Moyá.

  • Emissions

    Different layers of a territory, from top to bottom: wood, earth and stone. Sa Sínia Nova quarry, in Manacor.

  • Emissions – Manuela and Juan Manuel in one of the four bioclimatic atriums of their building, built with ceramic blocks produced with biomass

    24 Social housing units on rental basis in Ibiza
    08014 Arquitectura

  • Emissions – Building with the landscape

    Right side, extracted red clay piles near Petra. Left side, Large pile of biomass ready to produce clean energy.

  • Emissions – Building with the landscape

    Dead Neptune grass leaves accumulated on the beach of Llucmajor. Although a protected plant, it highlights the use of local resources in balance with the surrounding ecosystems Once dried Neptune grass can be used as insulation in construction.

  • Emissions – Cecilia in a social home made of local compressed earth blocks and wood

    30 Social housing units on rental basis in Palma
    Vivas Arquitectos

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