Looking for the best in nature. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR
07/10/2023.
[Nuevo León] Mexico
metalocus, JORGE MARTINEZ
metalocus, JORGE MARTINEZ
Architecture studio S-AR was commissioned to design the first stage of construction of a glamping * site in the lower area of a forested area in the Sierra de Santiago, outskirts of the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
The main idea of the project is the connections proposed with three concepts, which relate to the program, nature, and people, through the idea of glamping or luxury camping, a growing global phenomenon, which combines outdoor camping with luxury and the conditions of the best hotels. The term was coined at the end of the 19th century, it is a fusion of the words glamor and camping.
(*) Glamping, (the result of the union of the words glamor and camping) also known as "luxury camping" is a growing global phenomenon that combines the action of outdoor camping and luxury, with the services of the best Hotels. The term was coined at the end of the 19th century.
The main idea of the project is the connections proposed with three concepts, which relate to the program, nature, and people, through the idea of glamping or luxury camping, a growing global phenomenon, which combines outdoor camping with luxury and the conditions of the best hotels. The term was coined at the end of the 19th century, it is a fusion of the words glamor and camping.
(*) Glamping, (the result of the union of the words glamor and camping) also known as "luxury camping" is a growing global phenomenon that combines the action of outdoor camping and luxury, with the services of the best Hotels. The term was coined at the end of the 19th century.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Model. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR.
Model. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR.
Planimetry. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR.
Planimetry. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR.
Planimetry. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR.
Planimetry. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR.
Planimetry. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR.
Planimetry. Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR.
Concentric Glamping designed by S-AR is organized with a central platform for common use in a rectangular shape, which contains: meeting spaces (the dining room and the fire pit) built with a perimeter of concrete, stones, brick and tree bark as fillers; a multipurpose room, placed on a pre-existing platform built with a mixed steel and wood structure and a kitchen module built with concrete and steel. Furthermore, the monolithic elements generate paths to connect the set of pieces, physically and visually.
The rest cabins are placed just like the bathrooms (enigmatic concrete cubes in the forest), separated from the common spaces on the slopes of the land. In this way, a greater degree of privacy is generated between the different spaces thanks to the forest trees.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
The rest cabins are placed just like the bathrooms (enigmatic concrete cubes in the forest), separated from the common spaces on the slopes of the land. In this way, a greater degree of privacy is generated between the different spaces thanks to the forest trees.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws.
Description of project by S-AR
The project is about connections. First the connection between people and nature through a destination. Secondly to connect different pieces inside a specific landscape, connecting them with their material nature and programs as some pieces depend on others when creating an ensemble. Third, to connect the goodness of protection and security in architecture with the forest's force and apparent unchangingness.
The project has a first stage of a glamping composed by different built pieces in the lower area of a forest terrain in the Sierra de Santiago, Nuevo León, México, located in the outskirts of Monterrey city.
The program is divided into a central platform of common use in a rectangular shape. It holds gathering spaces (dining and campfire) built with a concrete and stone wall, bricks, tree bark as fillers. A multi use room located over a preexisting firm platform from an old terrace (including the old and peculiar chimney in the salon). It is built with a combined structure of steel and wood that aligns lengthwise of the central platform as the kitchen unit made of steel and concrete aligns wide (serving the dining room). Monolithic concrete elements make paths, seats and steps to connect these different pieces physically and visually. Finally, the ensemble is completed by an enigmatic concrete cube in the forest, built further than the other pieces holding the common bathrooms.
Concentric Glamping x The Outlands by S-AR. Photograph by The Raws
The resting and living areas are a series of small cabins (each holding one room, living, bathroom and terrace) and other minimal refugees (room with roof terrace). These are built with a mix of concrete, steel, metallic sheet and wood. The spaces are arranged on the hillsides of the terrain, far from the common areas in aim to obtain greater privacy between the trees of the wooded land.
The chromatic palette of the chosen materials (gray, black, white, yellow, red) fades and is absorbed by the prevailing colors of the forest (brown, dark green, black).
The new abstract pieces lie in the natural millenary forest. They are the first in this new place without local precedent, blend among the enormous nature and these small architectural pieces.
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Architects
S-AR. César Guerrero, Ana Cecilia Garza.
Project team
Builder / General Contractor:.-Daniel Hernández.
Interior Design.- S-AR, Juan Pablo Lojero.
Landscape Design.- S-AR, Juan Pablo Lojero.
Supervision.- Daniel Hernández, Juan Pablo Lojero, S-AR.
Interior Design.- S-AR, Juan Pablo Lojero.
Landscape Design.- S-AR, Juan Pablo Lojero.
Supervision.- Daniel Hernández, Juan Pablo Lojero, S-AR.
Colaboradores
Carlos Morales, María Sevilla, Kimberley Loya, Narda Rigal.
Client
The Outlands.
Area
210.75 sqm.
Dates
Project year.- 2019.
Construction year.- 2020-2022.
Construction year.- 2020-2022.
Location
Santiago, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Photography
The Raws, Hugo Tirso - Mavix.
César Guerrero, Ana Cecilia Garza. S-AR
S-AR is an architectural design studio based in Mexico (Monterrey and Mexico City) led by architects César Guerrero and Ana Cecilia Garza.
Their work focuses on the design and development of architectural projects of several scales and typologies from private, experimental and social houses to architectural installations, educational buildings and design of furniture and other objects including books and independent publications about architecture.
S-AR´s work has been awarded the Emerging Voices Award by The Architectural League of New York (New York, U.S.A., 2016), the Design Vanguard Award by Architectural Record for emerging architects (New York, U.S.A., 2013), the Dwell Design Award by Dwell Magazine for the Best Dwelling (San Francisco, U.S.A., 2020), the Blueprint Award by Blueprint Magazine for the Best Small Project (London, U.K., 2020) and the 1st. Place in the XXI Cemex Building National Award 2012 (Mexico, 2012). They received the Young Artists Grant “Jovenes Creadores” CONACULTA – FONCA (Arts and Culture Mexican Council, Mexico, 2009) and they were part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art (New York, U.S.A., 2007). The studio received an Award of Merit in the 2020 AZ Awards (Toronto, Canada, 2020) and an Honorable Mention in the AN Best of Design Awards by The Architect´s Newspaper (New York, U.S.A., 2020). S-AR has been nominated for the 2014 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award (Rosario, Argentina, 2014) and for the 2019 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award (Asuncion, Paraguay, 2019), and selected -Emerging Designer- in the Present for the Arts in Mexico by La Tempestad Magazine of Arts (Mexico, 2014), selected to represent Mexico in the BAL – Latin-American Biennial of Architecture (Mexico – Spain – LATAM, 2015) and selected to be part of the Mexico´s Pavilion in the 15 and 16 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia – 15th and 16th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (Mexico – Italy, 2016 / 2018).
Their work focuses on the design and development of architectural projects of several scales and typologies from private, experimental and social houses to architectural installations, educational buildings and design of furniture and other objects including books and independent publications about architecture.
S-AR´s work has been awarded the Emerging Voices Award by The Architectural League of New York (New York, U.S.A., 2016), the Design Vanguard Award by Architectural Record for emerging architects (New York, U.S.A., 2013), the Dwell Design Award by Dwell Magazine for the Best Dwelling (San Francisco, U.S.A., 2020), the Blueprint Award by Blueprint Magazine for the Best Small Project (London, U.K., 2020) and the 1st. Place in the XXI Cemex Building National Award 2012 (Mexico, 2012). They received the Young Artists Grant “Jovenes Creadores” CONACULTA – FONCA (Arts and Culture Mexican Council, Mexico, 2009) and they were part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art (New York, U.S.A., 2007). The studio received an Award of Merit in the 2020 AZ Awards (Toronto, Canada, 2020) and an Honorable Mention in the AN Best of Design Awards by The Architect´s Newspaper (New York, U.S.A., 2020). S-AR has been nominated for the 2014 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award (Rosario, Argentina, 2014) and for the 2019 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award (Asuncion, Paraguay, 2019), and selected -Emerging Designer- in the Present for the Arts in Mexico by La Tempestad Magazine of Arts (Mexico, 2014), selected to represent Mexico in the BAL – Latin-American Biennial of Architecture (Mexico – Spain – LATAM, 2015) and selected to be part of the Mexico´s Pavilion in the 15 and 16 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia – 15th and 16th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (Mexico – Italy, 2016 / 2018).
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