House of Harvest / Frayn Studio

Textual content description offered by the architects. The Home of Harvest is a neighborhood meals hub that breathes new life right into a former cattle slaughterhouse, remodeling it right into a vibrant middle for native, regenerative meals. Supporting a small-scale, sustainable meals system throughout the Balearic Islands, the mission connects each stage of meals manufacturing—from cultivation and transformation to distribution and neighborhood gathering. Designed with pure supplies and a deal with vitality effectivity, the area invitations public engagement and celebrates the shared expertise of meals.

The design retains the constructing’s unique footprint but reinterprets it as a “metabolism,” the place freshly harvested produce enters by a loading bay and strikes by distinct but interconnected areas. These areas are designed so as to add worth at each stage.

The Meals Distribution and Transformation Kitchens are operated as non-public business areas, whereas the Farm Store and Tasting Room are open to the general public, inviting guests to attach with domestically produced meals. These public areas are linked by a brand new courtyard that includes a planted public seating space.

A dedication to vitality effectivity is central to the constructing’s design. The outside is enveloped in a “thermal blanket” made out of Diathonite Evolution – a pure materials composite of lime, cork, and clay, which reinforces the constructing’s insulation. The roof is constructed from compressed wooden fibre panels and topped with standing-seam zinc panels. This design not solely contributes to the constructing’s vitality efficiency but in addition captures each drop of rainwater, funnelling it by an underground system again to the farm to nourish crops that feed the constructing.

The roof can also be dwelling to over 100 photo voltaic panels, producing as much as 70 kWh of energy. In summer time, the constructing produces extra vitality than it consumes, promoting the excess again to the grid. The north-facing aspect of the roof is punctuated with skylights, permitting pure mild to flood key areas and decreasing the necessity for synthetic lighting all through the day.

The Home of Harvest stands as a dwelling, working proof of idea for the broader transformation of agricultural infrastructure at Juntos Farm. It serves as a case examine for retrofitting industrial areas to help the event of native, regenerative meals methods—a imaginative and prescient shared by the shopper and design group, who intention to encourage a broader motion in direction of native, community-driven agriculture.