The beach is far away. In a "residual" land, without facing the sea and near the untouchable boundary of the mangrove, three volumes contain in this hotel its own aquatic landscape. Three long vegetable roofs shelter the rooms without touching each other. In this way, the 'palapa' retains its clear, simple construction. This archaic logic, learned from the Mayan house, allows the walls to be independent from their structural work. The room is sheltered between the water, which sneaks from the flooded patio, in a brief reminder of the mangrove that populates the island of Holbox. Rest under a palapa built with solid cedar and intense aroma, experience as a space, is the premise of all rooms, which for this reason do not allow a second floor.

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Architects: ESTUDIO MACIAS PEREDO
Location: Holbox, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Authors: Salvador MacĂ­as Corona, Magui Peredo Arenas

Coordinator : Leonardo RuĂ­z

Architecture Team: Claudia Muñoz, Denisse Sandoval, Carlos Mendiola, Mauricio Vázquez, Andrea Arregui, Ernesto Rizo

Area: 600.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: CĂ©sar BĂ©jar

Model Photographs: CĂ©sar BĂ©jar

Text: Víctor Alcérreca

Interior Design: Claudia Muñoz

Constructor: Cipriano Hernández

Consultants: Salvador Reyes, Josefina LarraĂ­n

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