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"The unexpected and rigorously attuned geometry of the [kitchen]
skylight itself and the living room ceiling below produces a fluctuating
reading of the room that shifts radically space," says Barrett.
Located on the historic, 5-acre La Mesa
farming fields, flanked by cacti forests
and backdropped by the Sierra Laguna
Mountains, Paradero Todos Santos is an
80 percent landscape project, with a vast,
100,000-square-foot botanical garden by
Mexico-based practice POLEN at its heart.
Nature thrives at the lush-with-life property,
lending it a local authenticity that grounds
its more cosmopolitan air (one is simply
blind not to see a setting for a high-class
fashion shoot everywhere they look). With
a sensibility more desert dream than beach
chic—the typical aesthetic for a coastal
hotel—Paradero Todos Santos goes
beyond endless palm fronds and private,
star-netted rooftops; it is a sensory-infused
experience by design.
What design! Featuring concrete volumes
that smack of Luis Kahn, triangular geome-
tries referencing a sacred symbol of Mayan
culture, and curvaceous, sky embracing
