Palapa studio is a total design beachside house available for rentals and artists' residency in Oaxaca
Palapa Studio is an idyllic beachside sanctuary, a collaboration between a renowned architect and a visual artist and designer. Our house is an eco-friendly project that combines ancient local techniques such as a woven palm roof with the modern technology of concrete. It is a minimalist space that opens onto the natural landscape, with high ceilings and careful attention to every detail —from the ceramic dishes to the furniture and garden— just a few steps from the beach!
In some parts of the house, the palm covering reaches down to touch the floor, which has allowed, in many cases, doing away with traditional vertical walls, thanks to the single continuous plane of the large natural roof. The house is very light. The only rooms with solid walls are the bathroom and part of the kitchen; the rest of the downstairs is totally open to the outdoors and enjoys the spectacular view offered by a very special staircase which, in addition to its use for going upstairs and downstairs, becomes a center of activity. Residents can sit, cook, place objects, and use it to view the infinite landscape of western Mexico’s Pacific Ocean
Text by Ana María Marín, for the magazine Pandora # 1 November, 2019
Palapa Studio is project by Lasala & Lasala a design studio based in Los Angeles.
