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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Hotel B¨O in Chiapas, México by Muro Rojo ArquitecturaMarch 14th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Muro Rojo Arquitectura The B¨O Hotel suggests a new and fresh perspective of San Cristobal de las Casas. It is a proposal with an identity of its own, a revision of what hospitality should be, in which the design shapes the whole space integrating in a same gesture the concept of a house and a hotel within one single experience. B¨O is a place which inscribes the premises that have guided the work of Muro Rojo Arquitectura: How our own life gives meaning to a place and how design transforms our perception of the world?  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro
 Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro The design of the Hotel B¨O invites us to look back to a Mexico which finds its roots in the land, in the traditions of a mixed culture that raises a whole new world. It is a hotel that shelters us from that unique horizon that Chiapas represents and invites us to contemplate a landscape surrounded by mountains where life appears to emerge from the rain to get lost amid the fog.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro It’s an architecture that seeks to renew traditions and the multiple meanings that this city encompass through space, textures and roams. From its name, which in the Tzotzil language means “water”, the experience of this hotel part of the four elements, as in the traditional songs of Chiapas, where the earth is the body, wind is the moisture, the water is blood and fire is the spirit. The tour develops from this meaning, and a space that welcomes us was created. B¨O is a hotel to watch the rainfall.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro Thus, the architectural proposal finds its roots in the culture and its relationship with the environment. Such correspondence is shown in the dialogue that the building itself creates between the inside and outside, to include traditional Andalusian patio plant, as well as the warmth of wood in vernacular architecture, the poetics of their rooftops, and the color and texture of the ground on the walls in their scheme. This is a space without end, which is transformed along the day and the seasons. There are layers which open and close to recreate the space and the way in which we perceive the day and night, the rain and the Sun, the transition from spring to winter.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro This hotel arises from the desire to show the design elements that comprise as generators of a warmth and coziness, and at the same time as containers of stories, such as in the use of textiles, because in Chiapas the life is written as well in every thread, knot, texture and color.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro The experience of this hotel includes: 14 deluxe rooms, 6 suites with private garden and pool included, 1 master suite with bathtub, terrace and private garden and 1 presidential suite with bathtub and roof garden with pool included. Library, Lobby Bar, Fitness Center, Private Events Hall, Spa, and more than 1000 m2 of gardens. The restaurant is called LUM which means earth in tzotzil.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro B¨O offers a new experience in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a unique way of being received, sheltered and surprised by an unexpected design derived from the desire of Carlos and Fernando Gutiérrez to rediscover their traditions and their land. For this matter, Muro Rojo Arquitectura recreated their own history in Chiapas through architecture and interior design.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Muro Rojo Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Muro Rojo Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Muro Rojo Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Muro Rojo Arquitectura
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