Iwan Baan

OBJETIVO

California Sur's historical roots, material culture, and landscape as a way to coexist and generate a dialogue with the local community and context. Through culture collage, a re-origination abstracting the function and local material techniques from the origin and re-interpreting them to a present-day function, form, material, and technique, we propose a transformation of meaning. We Suggest a dynamic exchange with its surroundings rather than a fully commercialized one-way experience.

Having a sustainable awareness, natural and local materials were used: palm palapa roofs, timber structure, doors and windows built with local vara de arco, and locally sourced rammed earth thermal mass walls. El Pescadero is a unique ecoregion where underground water is present indifference with most of the region, to create awareness of this vital resource a water treatment plant and a saltwater pool with saline chlorinators were included. Through a precise climatic analysis, temperature, precipitation, humidity, prevailing winds, and solar incidence on the site were taken into consideration to employ strategies of passive cooling during the summer and passive heating in the winter.

The Spiritual space is located in the interstice between outside and inside, designed from learning about missions in the region where the main spiritual space became the building of a monastic complex where the interns and the community came together. It is through this same gesture and its internal adjacent courtyard that the spiritual space stands as a symbol of people from diverse backgrounds. And can come together through this spatial reinterpretation.

CONTEXTO

How might tourism foster the sustainable development of territory to champion environmental health and the well-being of local communities? In a region where the corrosion of culture and tradition is being accelerated by rapid generic development. The project aims to be an example of community-sensitive development and hospitality infrastructure in the area. To dissipate the established limits and the conventional hierarchies in order to produce new positive forms of understanding tourism.

El Perdido is located 45 min from Los Cabos, and 800 meters from the Pacific Ocean in the small agricultural town of El Pescadero which is rich in plantations of basil, chili, tomatoes, and strawberries. The unique ecoregion is defined by expansive low shrubland that drifts across the coastal alluvial plains westward into the foothills of the Sierra de La Laguna mountains