STRANDED HOTEL
This proposal emerges from an ongoing investigation into ephemeral ways of inhabiting the shifting ecosystem of coastal dunes without altering the site’s natural landscape, ecological balance, or geographic character. To conceptualize this approach required understanding the site not as a solid, but as a liquid—an unstable terrain shaped continuously by wind, gravity, and time. Rather than resisting these forces, the project embraces impermanence as a guiding principle.
The structures are inspired by stranded boats resting along the shoreline—objects temporarily anchored between land and sea. Like these vessels, each unit remains light, autonomous, and responsive to its environment. Their bases, designed to be filled with sand, act as natural ballast, allowing the structures to stabilize themselves while remaining adaptable to gradual movement caused by wind and the continuous transformation of the dunes.
In this way, the architecture does not impose permanence but participates in the evolving life of the landscape. It becomes a temporary inhabitant—anchored by gravity, shaped by climate, and in quiet dialogue with the rhythms of the sea.
The structures are inspired by stranded boats resting along the shoreline—objects temporarily anchored between land and sea. Like these vessels, each unit remains light, autonomous, and responsive to its environment. Their bases, designed to be filled with sand, act as natural ballast, allowing the structures to stabilize themselves while remaining adaptable to gradual movement caused by wind and the continuous transformation of the dunes.
In this way, the architecture does not impose permanence but participates in the evolving life of the landscape. It becomes a temporary inhabitant—anchored by gravity, shaped by climate, and in quiet dialogue with the rhythms of the sea.
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Hospitality concept
2022
Piero Demichelis
East Cape, Baja California Sur, Mexico
12,000 sqm
800 sqm
Wood
2022
Piero Demichelis
East Cape, Baja California Sur, Mexico
12,000 sqm
800 sqm
Wood