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The palett e brings soſt ness, too, adds studio
Tucked in a lush mountainous setting,
Colombia's Cannúa is the first hotel
built with compressed earth bricks
design leader Carlos Herrera. " The design
displays a progressive arc of color that connects
to diff erent natural features of the Pacifi c
Northwest-from the Olympic Mountains to the
Northern Cascades and Puget Sound. In this
way, guests are subtly guided through the natural
landscape as they move from space to space. "
Dating back to 1907, the brick and timber building
" is a testament to the craſt smanship of the hands
that built it, " says project design lead Elizabeth
Hutchinson. " Our work is to reinvigorate, not rub
out, the soul of the structure. "
As the climate becomes more tropical, ecoconscious
practices will be critical to envisioning
the next generation of the built environment,
which contributes 42 percent of global carbon
emissions annually, according to nonprofi t
organization Architecture 2030. In Anguilla, for
example, the 76-room Zemi Beach House, part of
LXR Hotels & Resorts, unveiled the Zemi Solar
Farm that allows the hotel to run on 100 percent
solar energy during the day, the fi rst on the
island to do so.
Just outside of Medellín, Colombia, the 18Stunning
vistas surround the indoor-outdoor
Hotelito at Mexico's MUSA development
room Cannúa lodge from Caimo Collection and
designed by Lucas Henquin and Federico Cairoli
is the fi rst hotel in the world to be constructed
from sun-dried, compressed earth bricks made
onsite. This durable material is buoyed by
guadua, an equally hardy native bamboo species,
and the building protectively wraps around the
entry's chachafruto trees, att racting animals
and birds that " function in harmony with our
environment, " says Cannúa cofounder Brian
Schon. " The entire project was designed based
on permaculture principles. We asked ourselves,
how do we harness our renewable resources?
We then designed all structures using
Fibonacci's sequence, to avoid interventions
into the mountainside more easily and work
with the contours of the earth. "
Close to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, the 13-room
Nature-inspired interiors at Populus feature
exposed concrete and sinuous lines
The central staircase, as seen in a
rendering, is a defining feature of the
forthcoming Hotel Westland in Seattle
Hotelito is a newcomer to the art, adventure, and
nature-fueled MUSA development launched by
local and Mexico City-based designer Andrés
Saavedra and Canadian entrepreneur Tara
Medina. Embracing bioclimatic architecture
and materials like wood, brick, stone, and palm
leaves sourced within a 62-mile radius, Hotelito,
explains Saavedra, whose eponymous studio
designed the property, has an intentionally small
footprint so that initiatives like regenerative
agriculture, water capture, and green roofs are
possible. " We have several spaces throughout to
encourage moments of refl ection, " he adds. " It's
a rare sight [to see] the ocean, mountains, lagoon,
salt fl ats, jungle, and mangroves in a single
postcard. " hd
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Photos and renderings courtesy of HOTELITO, POPULUS, ANDRES RODRIGUEZ, and URBAN VILLAGES
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