Shut-up, it’s simple to miss the architectural oasis usual from concrete, wooden, and metal awaiting behind Casa TO’s half-door threshold. The resort’s concrete clad exterior is draped in boa scarves of vines, with palms reaching upward and outward, barely contained by the varied unions of rectilinear and curving brutalist planes that develop into evident with just some steps again. Even so, the vigorous native vegetation can’t totally camouflage the resort’s promise of structure imagined to incite “a radical sensory expertise upon getting into.”
Designed by architect Ludwig Godefroy and sited in an inland nook of La Punta Zicatela, Puerto Escondido, the 9 suite resort provides an intimate respite from the festive Oaxacan surf scene weaving throughout the beachside streets. We discovered ourselves grateful of the contemplative refuge provided to us for a number of morning hours throughout the latest 2023 Mexico Design Honest, indebted to its shaded cool cavern, enthralled by the modern reticulated interpretation of place and area designed to compel company to do nothing however swim, relaxation, and sometimes sip one thing refreshing.
Picture: Gregory Han
Picture: Gregory Han
Godefroy’s inside-out method invitations mild and shadow, sky and water, mass and vacancy all into an evocative interaction staged throughout the resort’s various heights. The cavernous central enclosure is most dramatically framed by a collection of huge round concrete gap punches, permitting company and the coastal breeze entry throughout its size of water and herringbone brickwork ground – a span interspersed with low profile furnishings constructed by carpenters from Oaxaca, Puebla, and Guadalajara. The peak of furnishings is simple to stoop into, rather more troublesome to come up from (mentally, extra so than bodily, such is their consolation).
Picture: Gregory Han
Picture: Gregory Han
The structure is meant to evoke the reticulated sample of two historic initiatives of hydraulic nature somewhat than of hospitality: the sixth century AD Basilica Cistern of Istanbul, and the nineteenth century constructed Hornsey Wooden Reservoir in Finsbury Park, London. Picture: Gregory Han
The resort’s concrete mass is interjected by a sundry of home windows, doorways, and different openings partially coated by the coastal area’s aggressive verdant vegetation, inviting passersby and the coastal breeze equal likelihood to make their manner into the interior quantity of Casa TO’s Oaxacan temple the place the resort’s spirit of serene contemplation comes into focus.
Picture: Gregory Han
Picture: Gregory Han
Meals and drinks are served on the higher rooftop stage. Picture: Gregory Han
Tendrils of vines intrude, however privateness is in any other case retained contained in the uncooked concrete confines of Casa TO. Picture: Gregory Han
The visitor rooms proceed the architectural narrative of contrasts, equally cool and cavernous, inviting the weather on the cusp of its concrete partitions. Backyard Suites are furnished with king measurement beds with a small personal backyard, whereas the higher ground Terrace Suites are barely bigger and include their very personal outside tub with recent water to simply slip into every morning or night time from a king measurement mattress.
Backyard Suite Picture: Jaime Navarro
Terrace Suite Picture: Jaime Navarro
Terrace Suite Picture: Jaime Navarro
What: Casa TO
The place: Brisas de Zicatela, 70934 Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
How a lot: From $274
Highlights: The coated solarium foyer working parallel alongside a protracted infinity pool framed by six monumental round openings conjures up journey pictures. Don’t skip out on brunch upstairs.
Design draw: Designed by Mexico Metropolis-based architect Ludwig Godefroy, the resort’s round opening poolside and foyer are complemented with furnishings constructed by carpenters from Oaxaca, Puebla, and Guadalajara. Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s Casa Wabi, Casa Naila by BAAQ, and Meridiano gallery by architect Tatsuro Miki and Axel Vervoordt are all positioned inside Puerto Escondido’s driving distance perimeter.
Guide it: Casa TO
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