Treehouse Suite, Playa Viva Sustainable Boutique Hotel Development, Juluchuca Building, Images
Treehouse Suite
Playa Viva Sustainable Boutique Hotel Development, Guerrero, Mexico – design by Deture Culsign, Architecture+Interiors
26 Sep 2016
Treehouse Suite at Playa Viva Sustainable Boutique Hotel
Location: México
Design: Deture Culsign, Architecture+Interiors
Treehouse Suite at Playa Viva Sustainable Boutique Hotel

Stroll the one-mile beach of this 12-key 200 acre eco-resort, and what draws your gaze is an elliptical shaped bamboo wrapped platform hovering somewhere between the canopy of palms above and green shrubbery below.

 
This perch is the beachfront bedroom of the 700sf bi-level treehouse suite. Upon approach, though hard to distinguish interior from exterior, there is an open-air lowerlevel villa housing the sitting area and bathroom and upper-level perch for the sleeping area.  
The villa?s palm-tree-pierced, clay tile roof and exposed wood beams provide a textural ceiling for the lounge and bathroom, where locally sourced wood becomes countertop, carved stone is the vessel sink and hand-laid pebbles create the graphic shower floor. Bamboo screening provides privacy while the roof is intentionally carved back so showering can be experienced outdoors, revealing palm trees by day and a blanket of stars by night. With all water heated by solar, all water recycled, all electrical provided by 100% solar power and allinclusive yoga classes, the impassioned e...