CANDELABROS
Mexico, Beach
A coastal resort precedent showcasing integrated water features, organic poolside hardscaping, and a generous vernacular palapa roof over open-air living spaces.
- What we like about this project
- Small sculptural stone animal seating figures perched casually on the concrete pool deck.
Materials
- thatch
- timber
- concrete
- stucco
- stone
Visual identifiers
- palapa-roof
- curving-pool-deck
- rust-colored-walls
- sunken-lounging
Style tags
- tropical
- contemporary-vernacular
- resort
Visual tags
- resort-architecture
- tropical
- poolside
- outdoor-living
- regional-vernacular
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered terrace arrangement featuring curving platforms set within a free-form pool, backing into a terraced rust-colored wall and a large palapa-roofed structure.
- Facade system
- Open-air pavilion columns and rust-painted masonry walls with recessed openings.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam timber frame under a thatched roof with concrete masonry lower volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive resort scale with wide lounging platforms, double-height covered palapa, and tiered outdoor seating.
- Lighting
- Bright midday tropical sunlight casting sharp shadows and producing brilliant turquoise reflections from the pool water onto surrounding surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, luxurious, and breezy tropical leisure environment.
- Environmental context
- Coastal beach resort setting with lush tropical vegetation and clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- Open-air resort atmosphere combining sunken lounging areas, cantilevered viewing decks, and integrated wading pools that blur indoor and outdoor thresholds.
- Composition rhythm
- Flowing curved horizontal strata of water, light concrete paving, and rust-colored walls countered by vertical timber posts and thatched roof geometry.
- Style reading
- Tropical regionalism meets contemporary resort architecture
- Program
- Beach resort villa or luxury hotel terrace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- thatch, timber, concrete, stucco, stone
- Visual identifiers
- palapa-roof, curving-pool-deck, rust-colored-walls, sunken-lounging
- Style tags
- tropical, contemporary-vernacular, resort
- Visual tags
- resort-architecture, tropical, poolside, outdoor-living, regional-vernacular
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered terrace arrangement featuring curving platforms set within a free-form pool, backing into a terraced rust-colored wall and a large palapa-roofed structure.
- Facade system
- Open-air pavilion columns and rust-painted masonry walls with recessed openings.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam timber frame under a thatched roof with concrete masonry lower volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive resort scale with wide lounging platforms, double-height covered palapa, and tiered outdoor seating.
- Lighting
- Bright midday tropical sunlight casting sharp shadows and producing brilliant turquoise reflections from the pool water onto surrounding surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, luxurious, and breezy tropical leisure environment.
- Environmental context
- Coastal beach resort setting with lush tropical vegetation and clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- Open-air resort atmosphere combining sunken lounging areas, cantilevered viewing decks, and integrated wading pools that blur indoor and outdoor thresholds.
- Composition rhythm
- Flowing curved horizontal strata of water, light concrete paving, and rust-colored walls countered by vertical timber posts and thatched roof geometry.
- Style reading
- Tropical regionalism meets contemporary resort architecture
- Program
- Beach resort villa or luxury hotel terrace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture