Paradero hotel Mexico, Todos Santos building, Baja California Sur accommodation, Contemporary Mexican architecture photos
Hotel Paradero, Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
10 February 2022
Paradero hotel, Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Architect: POLEN ARQUITECTURA DE PAISAJE (Landscape architecture firm) Yektajo Valdez (Architecture project) BHUBER (Interior design)
Location: Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Photos by Onnis Luque
Hotel Paradero Todos Santos in Baja California Sur, Mexico
In this project, the architects aimed to emphasize the dynamism of the natural motion of the desert by exploring and highlighting the topography created by its winds, the elements that make it a gift to the senses, its natural form of creating paths and spaces that appear and disappear as in a landscape of surprises, and we did this by keeping true to its nature and cycles.
The desert is a land of constant change. Winds and seasons shape and reshape it, transforming its undulations, its reliefs, its fissures, its entire appearance with a single sweep of the wind. In order to emphasize its motion, we worked on a design inspired by these winds. We worked without hard lines, imagining each and every contour of its topography as if shaped by desert gusts rather than pen on paper.

But it?s not only the winds that sculpt the desert?s appearance – water and rain, though infrequent, are the magic spell that can change the flora?s color, its smell, its texture i...