UMBRAL is a historical and timeless hotel on Palma street in downtown Mexico City.
The hotel is born from a restoration project of a protected historic building dating from 1924 and built in a piece of land which was formerly a part of a convent. The project strives to help the building maintain its essence without erasing its past. The property has recovered its foundation and origins with respect to meeting places. The sequence of spaces gathers moments, paths and uses redefining an urban refuge to bring the history of the city closer and sharing it.
In the number 69 of Venustiano Carranza street, formerly Capuchinas street, in the intersection with Palma we find a building which shouts its own history
There are, in this story, hallways that lead to an abyss, dusty steps and elevators that instead of taking us somewhere, lock us inside an endless alley
The lineal and vertical path generates memories amongst guests who discover a space in which they can wonder and rediscover
The building used to be a space for commerce and actuary offices
The thresholds suggest perceptible effects in every element of design
The rooms of the hotel are separated in continuous chambers of dark pitch black spaces followed by luminous areas which make it a true sensory experience
UMBRAL is diaphanous: time, space, memory.
The name of the hotels makes reference to the intention of the space to take people out of the chaos and noise of downtown and into the serenity of an intimate space.
The hotel incorporates different transitions along the path from public areas and into the rooms. These transitions use the following elements to make themselves noticeable:
A transition of tonalities (black to white and vice versa) generating changes in the ambience
Brass steel frames from which people can cross from one space to another making an evident separation of space and generating a transitional sensation adjustment
Adaptation stimulus by using lighting variations
How does my room receive me?
The architects proposal maintains de original physiognomy of the structure, which is why the rooms are all divided into different sections.
All the rooms are preceded by a dark vestibule which seeks to act as a buffer zone, a space of uncertainty and transition separated from the next by a curtain. When opened, this curtain reveals little by little what lays behind: a room full of light with white and grey tones and warm touches in linens and accessories.
The end of the journey is a completely white bathroom which reflects all light from its clean surfaces.
UMBRAL is the minimum amount of something necessary to make an effect perceptible.
All the filters which the user transits before finding calmness diminish little by little his or her cardiac rhythm until encountering the rooms which serve as spaces of relaxation and introspection.
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