Oaxaca, México

ETLA

Under Construction: 2026

Design Team: Daniel Holguin,

Juan Pablo Santa Fé, Laura Triana, Jesús Audelo

Bio Pool Pavilion | Etla, Oaxaca

Cradled in the mountains of Etla,

where the land hums in ochres and greens,

a pavilion rises—light as breath,

anchored like memory—grown from the soil beneath it.

Made of local rammed earth,

veined with green Oaxacan stone,

framed in steel,

wrapped in glass—

it doesn’t stand apart from nature,

it emerges from it.

Architecture here becomes landscape.

It echoes the hills after rain,

blends with the valley’s hush.

Materials speak in harmony:

earth-colored walls,

glass that mirrors cloudlight,

stone soft as moss at dusk.

A 20-meter bio pool stitches it all together—

rain-fed, plant-filtered, alive.

An ecosystem in motion,

a fluid machine

dressed as a mirror of sky.

The spirit of Chalchiuhtlicue,

jade goddess of flowing water,

moves through glass and stillness,

through the veins of stone.

Life-giver. Guardian of the current.

This is not just a place to swim, read, or create.

It is a communion:

a library of light,

studios where walls dissolve into horizon.

Context is concept—

it is source, collaborator, muse.

This pavilion becomes a gesture of reciprocity:

to the land, to water, to the gods of place.

Green and blue infrastructure

as architecture—

a structure that disappears into its surroundings,

until only shimmer remains:

light on water,

stone in silence.