A beachfront leisure setting that merges indoor and outdoor social spaces, emphasizing relaxed atmosphere, material warmth, and playful spatial connections.

Multi-use Commercial Space | 4,500 sf | Completed 2015 | Highway Roosevelt, Guatemala City This café and event space draws its inspiration from commercial roadside icons. To draw the attention of passing traffic, the building exterior is conceived as a four-sided billboard: a provocative fifty-foot matte-black cube studded with colorful car chassis.

A dining destination that reinterprets traditional motifs with a contemporary lens. Layers of texture, thoughtful lighting, and relational spaces invite guests to savor not just the menu but the environment itself.

A contemporary hospitality interior that responds to guest comfort and memorable experience, fusing functional clarity with expressive spatial gestures.

Gracia explores hospitality as atmosphere—balancing intimacy, material richness, and spatial clarity. The project layers texture, light, and geometry to create a welcoming environment that feels both contemporary and grounded. Carefully framed transitions between public and private zones encourage fluid movement and quiet discovery, while curated details elevate everyday experience. Rather than spectacle, Gracia focuses on subtle moments of warmth and connection, transforming a familiar typology into a place defined by character, comfort, and enduring presence.

A dining environment where material contrasts and rhythmic spatial sequences create a layered narrative—inviting guests into moments of intimacy and delight.

At Hotel Belmar, hospitality is shaped through landscape, light, and layered materiality. Rooted in its natural surroundings, the design enhances connection to place while elevating comfort and experience. Warm textures, crafted details, and carefully framed views create an atmosphere that feels intimate yet expansive. Public spaces invite gathering and quiet reflection, while guestrooms provide serene retreat. The project reinterprets boutique hospitality as an immersive environment—where architecture deepens the relationship between guest, setting, and memory.

Cocktail culture meets spatial delight in this social setting—where material richness and subtle theatricality animate the bar experience and encourage convivial gathering.

For "Saúl Bistro Pradera Concepcion” we wanted to challenge this typology of the generic suburban shopping center. Because the project is located at a high elevation, on the road to El Salvador, the client wanted the cozy feeling of a mountain house. To achieve this, the project needed to be separated from the commercial center to not appear like a theme-restaurant. As a result, red corrugated house-shaped containers cantilever out past the usual infill constraints of the shopping mall, giving the project the eye-catching feeling of an art installation or something that is extra-ordinary from the context. This subversive approach to the site gives the clients a stronger commercial presence and questions the conventional building type. This attitude is largely contrasts attitudes for the region regarding retail and commercial projects. Even in big cities, the culture is very car-oriented, and oriented around shopping centers. In order to create intimate spaces each container is placed within the existing concrete structural grid of the mall. The interiors are wrapped with natural materials such as finished plywood, felt, and bales of leaves for a rustic and effect. The bathrooms, window boxes and separations between the containers are demarcated by a checker-pattern of traditional handmade cement tile.