Designed by Santos Bolívar, Santulan is a balance in Hindi, which was the concept used for the development of the project that seeks to be inclusive, not only being a tourist destination but also being an example of a permanent culture of respect and balance with the ecosystem from its inhabitant to the building.

We wanted to break with the architectural typology of a hotel that develops its services within a same volumetric body, after incessantly analyzing the site and its geographical and natural qualities we made the decision to project its architectural program in different buildings interconnected by means of walkways that interact directly with nature and are architects of an invitation to live different spiritual and architectural experiences. Attempting to make these walkers the result of the analysis of the traces of the OM mantra symbol, as part of an integral design that seeks the balance between architecture, nature, mind, and spirit. Photography: José María González Villavicencio
The project was built from ecotechnologies that include walls of BTC (block of compacted earth), wetland (greywater reuse system), fog catcher tower to capture mist water, green roofs with low maintenance endemic plants, Organic orchard, Xeriscaping (respect for the local vegetation) and a natural cross ventilation system.

The project has an architectural program that includes 5 buildings distributed on the property, a volume in “V” is the main access to the whole bu...