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Architecture

A Home That Unfolds Like a Sheet of Paper

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A Home That Unfolds Like a Sheet of Paper
Discover how Can Tudó in Mallorca was designed from a single folded sheet, creating walls, roofs, and floors that blur boundaries between indoors and outdoors.

Perched on a steep hillside in Paguera, Calviá, Mallorca, Can Tudó is no ordinary coastal home. It offers sweeping views of Paguera Bay through pine trees, while its very structure blurs the line between building and landscape. The home was born from a simple yet daring idea: fold a single sheet, and let that gesture create every wall, roof, and floor.

Designed by Estudio Caballero Colón, the project transforms this playful concept into a residence that feels both sculptural and organic. Every surface flows from the fold, with frameless glass panels and sculptural, freestanding elements defining the spaces without confining them. Instead of walls, fissures in the glass facades and planted courtyards create natural divisions, weaving the house and landscape together.

Architecture Born from a Fold

This design approach makes the home feel less like a structure imposed on the hillside and more like one grown from it. Boundaries dissolve as vegetation, glass, and stone merge, allowing residents to experience an architecture that is open, layered, and constantly in dialogue with its surroundings.

Discover how Can Tudó in Mallorca was designed from a single folded sheet, creating walls, roofs, and floors that blur boundaries between indoors and outdoors.
Discover how Can Tudó in Mallorca was designed from a single folded sheet, creating walls, roofs, and floors that blur boundaries between indoors and outdoors.
Discover how Can Tudó in Mallorca was designed from a single folded sheet, creating walls, roofs, and floors that blur boundaries between indoors and outdoors.

A Pool Framed by Views

The south-facing side opens wide, with glass recesses pulling light and greenery inside. Here, the pool becomes a mirror for the surrounding pine canopy and sky. It’s a place where water, glass, and stone fold together, extending the sense of openness created by the architecture.

Discover how Can Tudó in Mallorca was designed from a single folded sheet, creating walls, roofs, and floors that blur boundaries between indoors and outdoors.
A hillside pool in Paguera frames the pine canopy and bay views, turning water and glass into a seamless extension of the home’s design.
A hillside pool in Paguera frames the pine canopy and bay views, turning water and glass into a seamless extension of the home’s design.
A hillside pool in Paguera frames the pine canopy and bay views, turning water and glass into a seamless extension of the home’s design.
A hillside pool in Paguera frames the pine canopy and bay views, turning water and glass into a seamless extension of the home’s design.

Interiors That Blur Boundaries

Step inside, and the distinction between house and landscape dissolves further. An interior courtyard and two carved fissures bring plants right into the living spaces. Overlapping trunks, leaves, and branches serve as living partitions, shifting with light and season to create an ever-changing atmosphere.

Step inside a home where nature replaces walls. Courtyards and glass fissures bring plants and light directly into the living spaces.
Step inside a home where nature replaces walls. Courtyards and glass fissures bring plants and light directly into the living spaces.
A minimalist kitchen design with an island that reflects the angled shape of the house.
A modern hallway with multi-coloured walls.

Bedrooms as Open Sanctuaries

Instead of conventional enclosures, the bedrooms rely on the folded sheet and floating furniture-like elements to define space. Freestanding wardrobes and bathtubs act as sculptural dividers, ensuring every corner maintains uninterrupted views of the bay.

At Can Tudó, the bedrooms flow seamlessly into open bathrooms, with freestanding tubs, sinks, and wardrobes arranged as sculptural dividers. These floating elements define space without enclosing it, allowing every corner to capture uninterrupted views of the bay.
At Can Tudó, the bedrooms flow seamlessly into open bathrooms, with freestanding tubs, sinks, and wardrobes arranged as sculptural dividers. These floating elements define space without enclosing it, allowing every corner to capture uninterrupted views of the bay.
At Can Tudó, the bedrooms flow seamlessly into open bathrooms, with freestanding tubs, sinks, and wardrobes arranged as sculptural dividers. These floating elements define space without enclosing it, allowing every corner to capture uninterrupted views of the bay.
At Can Tudó, the bedrooms flow seamlessly into open bathrooms, with freestanding tubs, sinks, and wardrobes arranged as sculptural dividers. These floating elements define space without enclosing it, allowing every corner to capture uninterrupted views of the bay.
At Can Tudó, the bedrooms flow seamlessly into open bathrooms, with freestanding tubs, sinks, and wardrobes arranged as sculptural dividers. These floating elements define space without enclosing it, allowing every corner to capture uninterrupted views of the bay.
At Can Tudó, the bedrooms flow seamlessly into open bathrooms, with freestanding tubs, sinks, and wardrobes arranged as sculptural dividers. These floating elements define space without enclosing it, allowing every corner to capture uninterrupted views of the bay.
At Can Tudó, the bedrooms flow seamlessly into open bathrooms, with freestanding tubs, sinks, and wardrobes arranged as sculptural dividers. These floating elements define space without enclosing it, allowing every corner to capture uninterrupted views of the bay.

Architectural Drawings

The house plans reveal the logic behind the fold. Every surface, roof, wall, and floor, stems from the same continuous gesture, creating a sense of cohesion across the design. The drawings highlight how the structure balances openness with enclosure, showing precisely where glass panels, freestanding elements, and planted courtyards shape the flow of space. On paper, the playful concept of a folded sheet becomes clear, mapping out a home where geometry and landscape work as one.

Plans of Can Tudó reveal how a single folded sheet generates the home’s geometry, mapping spaces that intertwine with nature.
Plans of Can Tudó reveal how a single folded sheet generates the home’s geometry, mapping spaces that intertwine with nature.
Plans of Can Tudó reveal how a single folded sheet generates the home’s geometry, mapping spaces that intertwine with nature.
Plans of Can Tudó reveal how a single folded sheet generates the home’s geometry, mapping spaces that intertwine with nature.

Beneath its geometric clarity lies something more playful. Can Tudó isn’t static, it invites its residents to discover new ways to live, new vantage points, and even unimagined games within its spaces. It’s a home designed not just to be seen, but to be experienced, unfolded, and rediscovered every day.

Photography by Luis Díaz Díaz | Design: Estudio Caballero Colon | Project Directors: Paula Caballero García & Diego Colón de Carvajal Salís | Construction: Rosique construcciones y obras civiles S.L. and Construcción Bajo Control Baleares H&L, S.L.

Source: Contemporist