area 143 | ELEMENTAL

architect: Elemental

location: Pilgrim Route Ameca-Talpa, Jalisco, Mexico

year: 2010

Building in a remote place should generate an architecture able to age as if it were a natural element. So, we thought of a kind of hollowed stone, bent to rest calmly on the hill side, and whose only purpose is to offer pilgrims a resting place with dark shadows, cross-ventilation and a view over the path they walked for a hundred kilometers to arrive there.