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.
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Architects: Miguel Angel Aragonés

Location: San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Architect In Charge: Miguel Angel Aragonés

Design Team: Miguel Ángel Aragonés, Juan Vidaña, Pedro Amador, Tadeo López, Rafael Aragonés, Alba Ortega.

Area: 47082.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Joe Fletcher

Collaborators: Antonino Trinidad, Ana Aragonés, Fernanda Kurth, Manuel de la O., Diego Amador, Axel Hernández

Structural Engineering: José Nolasco

Constructor: Jorge Flores, José Torres

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