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If linking the built environment to the natural is the goal, a Tulum apartment complex hits the mark

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RA!'s design strategy works with nature's inevitable reclamation of built spaces. - Ariadna Polo
The architecture anticipates and incorporates an eventual growing together, using cascading planters that encourage vegetation to spill down façades and terraces designed to age gracefully alongside their jungle surroundings. - Ariadna Polo
The development's staggered massing evokes ancient Mayan settlements, asserting that to embrace the past is also to build for the future. - Ariadna Polo

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A 15-apartment development by RA! chooses intentional ruin, allowing the lushness of the jungle to blur the boundary between built and natural environments. 

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