Mexican firm Reyes Rios + Larrain Arquitectos has covered the walls of an apartment complex in Tulum in stucco that is pigmented pink to contrast pockets of greenery.
Photograph by Pim Schalkwijk
Mi Querido Tulum, which translates as or My Dear Tulum, is an apartment building comprising 38 flats in the popular holiday destination on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. The four-storey complex includes two-bedroom and three-bedroom units, that range from 110 to 220 square metres.
The exteriors are covered in the texture stucco to contrast the plants and trees that grow in a courtyard at the centre of the building.

"This colour was selected for its optical qualities of being a background that allows contrast to the body and volume of the flora," said Reyes Rios + Larrain. The studio, which is based in the nearby city of Mérida, created the central patio to form a communal gathering space for the building's residents, while maintaining the greenery on the property. They did this by organising the dwellings into three blocks that frame a courtyard, which it dubbed the "patio of water and wind".
Photograph is by Pim Schalkwijk
"The patio of water and wind not only is the convener and distributor space of the complex, it also contributes in itself for 20 per cent of the green and permeable area of the project," it said Reyes Rios + Larrain.
"It is part of the particular experience of inhabiting this housing complex in its relationship with the extraord...