Paratges de Pau

Es Trenc and Sa Rápita beaches are located on the shores of the Mediterranean in the southern part of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands. As natural area has great scenic value being one of the few preserved areas of the island almost untouched. There are 8 machinegun nests built on this environment as defensive element to protect the island against a possible attack during World War II. Finally they never had a military use and over time have become part of the landscape of the area.

We worked in white, color of Mediterranean architecture, in order to be sensitive with the place identity. We selected somo of the verses from the poem «Cala Gentil» from the Majorcan author Miquel Costa i Llobera, that could act independently to «write» on the worn concrete of each nest. Seeking continuity of intervention in his eight points. We use a META typography, humanist sans serif family, because despite not having spikes, it retains the features of a more traditional typography which is usually associated poetry. White emptying through poem fragments concrete frame and history.