The Franciscana Hotel project located in the city of Valladolid, a historic and colonial city on the Yucatán Peninsula and also designated as a Pueblo Mágico, has given DNA an apportunity to explore a different approach to the projects we have underway.
The project is born from the interpretation of the arch as the main elemento of colonial architecture in Valladolid and how this arch creates a sequence of spaces and plays of light and shadow. The projects’s location in a very natural environment allows us to incorporate nature into the Project, creating a central plaza around the jungle, so that the rooms are constantly facing the jungle and the plaza itself participates in that nature.
The location of this hotel, which is a 100 room hotel in the center and heart of Valladolid under the IHG Brand, a very important hotel group that will créate its first brand called Vignette Collection in Central America, gave us the opportunity to create a block concept with a central plaza. In this plaza, a whole system of gastronomy, art, culture, and shopping is created becoming a hub and catalyst for the city itself, where not only the hotel’s own guests but also the city’s residents can enjoy this new plaza that the hotel brings to Valladolid.
The same happens on the rooftop, where a leisure area is created with this infinity pool that frames the city of Valladolid, its plazas, and churches through the arches of the facade.