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San José del Cabo, Mexico ARCHITECT Miguel Ángel Aragonés BUILDER Encanto Group PROJECT Hotel Mar Adentro – Hotel, Residential and Resort San José del Cabo DESCRIPTION Mar Adentro is a complex of floating buildings that open out onto the sea. Each volume contains hotel, residential or resort units that form an independent universe overlooking the water, which surrounds the entire project.

“Between the desert and the diaphanous ocean, I felt the enormous drive of the water under a scorching sun”.

“The greatest virtue of architecture is that it generates sensations through space, on a series of planes that belong to the realm of sensitivity”.

“Poliform Contract has huge potential, it can produce almost all components of a house, even the ones it doesn’t usually deal with”.

MIGUEL ÁNGEL ARAGONÉS Mexican architect Miguel Ángel Aragonés is known worldwide for his style, combining the purity of minimalism with decorative lighting and the beauty of natural landscapes. Self-taught and independent, unconnected to architecture circles, schools and associations, he started working in 1984, at only twenty years of age. Since then he has completed hundreds of projects, both in the residential and hospitality sectors. He took part in the first Architecture Biennale organized by the Conaculta and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and his work has been exhibited...

How did you come up with the idea of a floating architecture? This dreamlike scenery collided with the unaesthetic all-inclusive resorts dotting the coastline. I decided to draw my own version, that stood apart from the rest. Given the happy circumstance that the universe had created a desert joined to the sea along a horizontal line, I had the idea of a box that contains its own water and its own air. How did you go about establishing a dialogue between architecture and landscape? I believe that the greatest virtue of architecture is that it generates sensations through space, on a series of...

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