Ibiza Residence is a minimalist villa retreat located in Ibiza, Spain, designed by Adrián Bedoya and Víctor Abellán with interior decoration by Studio Amal and Studio Ana Foster-Adams. Conceived through a close architectural collaboration between Adrián Bedoya and Víctor Abellán — with Abellán leading the design vision through his practice WCP Ibiza — this brutalist masterpiece was built over three years during the global pandemic, brought to life by the skilled hands of contractors Bofibiza. A quiet act of defiance and commitment to material honesty, every decision emerged from an ongoing creative dialogue between the client, the architects, and interior designers Studio Amal and Studio Ana Foster Adams. The result is a rare coherence between shell and soul, where exposed concrete gives way to spaces of unexpected warmth — shaped at every stage by a shared belief that architecture is not backdrop, but experience itself.
A restrained palette of concrete and luna wood anchors the home to its terrain. The board-marked ceilings and walls retain the grain of their timber formwork, a finish that reads as both industrial and unmistakably handmade, since the imperfection of the casting is precisely what gives the surface its warmth. Against this, vertical timber battens introduce rhythm and a tactile counterpoint, their amber tone catching low Mediterranean light. The material logic extends to the layering of wool, linen, stone and clay throughout, each chosen for how it behaves underhand and underfoot rather than for visual effect alone.
Furniture does the work of humanizing the architecture. In the lounge, a bouclé modular sofa curves through the room in soft serpentine sections, its low channeled form a direct rebuttal to the orthogonal concrete overhead. The vocabulary of rounded, almost zoomorphic seating recurs across the interiors, a sculptural softness that recalls the biomorphic experiments of mid-century Scandinavian and Italian design without quoting them literally. Sharper notes punctuate this ease. A Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand LC7 swivel chair sits at the timber-clad office desk, its tubular steel a clean piece of rationalist counterpoint, while Frank Gehry’s Wiggle side chair appears in a guest room, its corrugated cardboard ribbon a witty reminder that structural honesty and play are not opposed.
The bathrooms reveal the project’s commitment to material specificity. Zellige tiles, with their handmade variation and faintly glazed shimmer, line the guest spaces, while a primary bathroom keeps the board-formed concrete unbroken, pairing it with a travertine vanity whose open grain echoes the porosity of the walls. A monolithic stone basin, hewn rather than cast, grounds the powder room in geological time. These are surfaces that record the hand that made them, consistent with an approach that treats craft as narrative rather than ornament.
Architecture by Adrián Bedoya + Victor Abellán, construction by Bofibiza, and interior design by Studio Ana Foster-Adams + Studio Amal.
