Staggered cuboid volumes clad in green paste, handmade from cacti slime, introduce Punta Nayáa, a boutique hotel in Oaxaca, Mexico. Spread across two villas with eight rooms along the slope of the neighborhood, the hotel’s volumes and nopal green color relate to the topography of the neighborhood. PRODUCTORA, in collaboration with BACE Arquitectos working on interiors, designed the boutique vacation spot to find harmony between the structure and environment, the exterior and interior.

Despite the rectilinear volumes, the structure remains visibly light on the land. This is due to the latticework facade, reinforced with prefabricated pieces of sand cement. In contrast, the rear facade opens up more completely to let the outdoors in and situate the property in line with the tropical surroundings.

The visual language of the facade continues inside with the green paste surrounding the walls, from the bedrooms to the hallways and stairwells. The monochrome interior completely envelops guests in the cactus green, maintaining a relationship to the land even while inside.

The texture of the paste also adds dimensionality to the rooms. In other places, lighter green acts as a complement to the cactus base as the paler hue is used in the ceilings, the curving steps of the stairs, built-in storage, and furniture. The dual tones fall alongside yellow tropical wood called macuil, which makes up the doors, windows, pergolas, and carpentry. Thus, the resulting material palette is both visually and physically a representation of the land. This enables the hotel to feel at home in its surrounding landscape and lends the property a warm, hand-touched feel.