Architecture intended to start a conversation, spaces where one can listen to music, a temporary home with amiable, discrete and simple service.
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.”
“El límite es nuestra visión al horizonte, constante y lineal; solo cambia su humor, nunca su forma.”
Un concepto del arquitecto Miguel Ángel Aragonés, en el que un hotel es creado en proporciones humanas y complementado por la armonía de la arquitectura con el entorno circundante. “La gente quiere que les construyamos un hogar feliz y, para ser honesto, nosotros como arquitectos estamos lejos de lograrlo. Tan sólo podemos aspirar a crear espacios que generen emociones y sensaciones de bienestar. El resto depende de quienes los habiten.”
Un lugar de suntuosa austeridad, un ambiente completo y continuo, con una atmósfera de resguardo, buena comida y una sensación de amplitud. La arquitectura que busca comenzar una conversación, espacios en los que uno puede escuchar música, un hogar temporal con servicio honesto y discreto.
La percepción del espacio y la estructura arquitectónica blanca se transforman a voluntad por el paso del sol y las nubes, y cada día reconfiguran de forma minuciosa y continua la amplitud acogedora por medio de una arquitectura que se transforma completamente con la luz natural y sus extravagantes estados de ánimo.
Un intento de comprender los contrastes entre la luz en interiores y exteriores. Todo lo anterior ha sido vital para facilitar la unidad del espacio, la fusión del interior y el exterior en mis construcciones.
Spaces of sumptuous austerity, a seamlessly complete environment, protection in milieu, good food and a sense of expanse.
Architecture seeking to generate sensations of wellbeing.
A concept by Miguel Angel Aragonés, where a hotel is created in human proportions, complemented by the Architecture’s harmony with the surrounding environment. “People want us to build them a happy home and to be honest, we as architects 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.”
A place of sumptuous austerity, a seamlessly complete environment, protection in milieu, good food, and a sense of breadth. Architecture intended to start a conversation, spaces where one can listen to music. A temporary home with straightforward, discrete service.
The perception of space and the all-white architectural structure is transformed at will by the passage of sun and clouds, reconfiguring the welcoming expanses minutely and continuously each day through an architecture fully transformed by natural light and its whimsical moods.
“An attempt to understand the contrasts between light in interiors and exteriors. All this has been vital in facilitating the unity of space, the merging of inside and outside in my constructions.”
-Miguel ángel Aragonés
