CASA ÀGUILA

Claudia Zivko bought this land to build a home for herself and her daughters. Casa Aguila was drawn for the way they wanted to live, never with a sale in mind. When a house is built for its owner, every choice goes to what is best to live with, not to the highest return.

Everything was done for the first time, guided by her feelings, her wishes and what the family needed, listening to herself and to her daughters. In the architects of CEL-RAS and the builders of Reinsu she found a team that understood her ideas, followed her and guided her in turn, something a fee alone does not buy. Falco 10, Falco 13 and Fuster 8 came after, built for sale from the start. A first house is built only once.

It has been her family's home for seven years. With her daughters now setting out on their own journeys, she has made the private decision to sell, with a grateful heart for a home she truly loved living in.

“I am not just selling a house, I am selling a home.”Claudia Zivko

The house, designed with the architecture studio CEL-RAS, is structured in two volumes connected by a central volume that contains the living room inside, with an upper terrace directly above. The terrace carries a small irrigated garden that keeps grass and plants green all year, an outdoor room facing the sea and the hills of Gènova.

Indoor and outdoor living flow into one another. The kitchen and the living room open directly onto the terrace, where a covered dining area makes lunch and dinner outside possible all year long. A barbecue area communicates directly with the kitchen.

The two-volume layout gives the master bedroom natural privacy, set apart from the other bedrooms. Every bedroom has air conditioning and a ceiling fan, and sliding windows that let the air move through the house.

Beneath the house lies a full lower floor: a large media room, a multipurpose or guest room, a bathroom with shower, an office with direct access to the outside, a storage room and the technical room. A floor that leaves its use open.

“This house has been our home for seven years, and it kept evolving with us. Small touches, additions and changes, drawn from everyday life and from moments with friends and family.”Claudia Zivko

The combination of solar panels, a heat pump, wood construction and SATE insulation, an external thermal envelope that wraps the structure in a continuous insulating layer, gives the house a climate of its own: warm in winter with a minimum of heating, fresh in summer with generous airflow. An economical house in energy, and an ecological one. The fireplace is not the heating source. It is a place to gather around fire on winter evenings, a quiet luxury the house can afford precisely because warmth is already taken care of.

The core structure is built in advanced wood technology. Sustainably sourced, the wood regulates humidity and temperature naturally, keeping the climate of the house healthy through hot Mallorcan summers and cool winters.

The stone walls follow the Mallorcan tradition of Pedra en Sec. Each stone was selected and cut by hand. By tapping with a hammer and listening to the resonance, the workers test that a stone is solid and well cut, an old skill in which the stone must sing to be used.

“I built this house in the spirit of building my home for the rest of my life. It was never meant to be another project. That is what makes it a home.”Claudia Zivko