Excerpt: Casa Uh Lu’um, a residence by Jorge Garibay Architects, offers complete freedom for users to experience various emotions, stunning views, and vast vegetation, allowing them to fully immerse themselves in the site. The design philosophy focuses on harmonizing the structure with its surroundings. The building’s forms and materials integrate seamlessly with the environment, avoiding stark contrasts or dominating the landscape.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] This project is located at Isle Cozumel in Mexico. A world-famous island for its coral reef reserves and their wide touristic offer for diving. The land is located in front of the sea, which gives the users direct access to the beach. The complex is composed of apartment towers, houses, a wellness centre, concierge, a beach club, and a restaurant.
As their main objective, the architects set out to understand the wonders that Cozumel offers while respecting its existing nature as much as possible, communicating the identity of the area, and encouraging exploration and interaction with the environment. All this with the purpose of involving the user in a unique experience and transmitting something much deeper in the language of the project.
The design seeks to let the user live with complete freedom, testing all kinds of feelings and allowing them to experience different emotions within the site and to be enveloped in its incredible views and embraced by its vast vegetation. The formal proposal of the project consisted of following this philosophy. Each decision was designed so that the volumes and materiality would communicate in a certain way with the context, avoiding creating imposing contrasts.
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