Well i began to smile when i first saw it , right near the school where i teach, finally an architect who had managed to integrate
local indigenous design & materials with a condo non the less. Hard to see whats been done here, i need to get better pics, (the bard wire high fence doesn't exactly endear you to investigate) but this looks like an ultra modern condominium that has incorporated The Yucatan Palapas structure on the roof. Not as some extra cheap sun shade but as a design feature. You see the Palapas all over the place here, on the beach for bar roofs, as car ports , as extensions to resturants, but this is the first time i have seen the thatched intricately woven roof design as a design feature. Its almost as if the Architect started with the Palapas shape first and designed top down.I will have to get a closer look next time i go back. Could be a Lotus Petal in the mail.
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