Article source: Miguel Angel Aragonés

The first time I visited this property and took in the desert and the diaphanous, clear water running along a horizontal line in the background, I felt the enormous drive of water under a scorching sun. This piece of land, located in the middle of a coastline dotted with “All Inclusives,” would have to be transformed into a box that contained its own sea –practically its own air– given the happy circumstance that the universe had created a desert joined to the sea along a horizontal line. It was the purest, most minimalist landscape a horizon could have drawn. On either side, this dreamlike scenery collided with what humans consider to be aesthetic and build and baptize as architecture. I wanted to draw my own version, apart from the rest.

Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher

• Architects: Miguel Angel Aragonés
• Project: Hotel Mar Adentro
• Location: San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
• Photography: Joe Fletcher
  
• Structures: José Nolasco
  
• Construction: Jorge flores, josé torres
• Collaborators: Antonino trinidad, ana aragonés, fernanda kurth, manuel de la o., diego amador, axel hernández
• Special engineering: High tech services
• Preliminary Project: January 2012
• Executive Project: November 2014
• Building Opening: January 2016

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