Architecture intended to start a conversation, spaces where one can listen to music, a temporary home with amiable, discrete and simple service.

ENCANTO

Always considering the two great protagonists of this work over all: the horizon and the ocean.

“People seek for us to build them a happy home; and in truth, as architects we are far from achieving this. We can only aspire to create spaces that generate emotions and sensations of wellbeing. The rest is up to those who inhabit them.”

An idea by Architect Miguel Angel Aragones with the first hotel ENCANTO in Acapulco, which was built between the years 2001-2009 with few resources, economic materials, and local labor. Encanto is a great labyrinth whose exits open out onto and are completed by the ocean. The building tries to retain a human scale, occasionally narrow, even small compared to or in contrast with its great heights; it has corners where only two people fit, intimate spaces that shelter and protect its guests. Everything was playfully created to generate continual momentum from the sea, to compel those staying there to seek and find a way out, arriving at it always and capturing it with their gazes.

Mar Adentro was conceived in the year 2011 and completed in 2017 by local craftsmanship. Always considering the two great protagonists of this work over all: the horizon and the ocean.
Architecture intended to start a conversation, spaces where one can listen to music, a temporary home with amiable, discrete and simple service complemented by Mexican Vernacular cuisine.
The perception of the space and the all white architectural object is transformed at will by the passage of sun and clouds reconfiguring the receiving expanses minutely and continously by day. Architecture fully transformed by light and its humorous temper.
“Trying to understand the contrasts between light in interiors and exteriors, this has been vital in facilitating the unity of spaces, the merging of inside and outside in my constructions.”