Ánima Village

The plazas—dedicated to art, wellness, recreation, and social life—are the organizing logic of the project. Tree canopies, timber pergolas, water features, and native xeric plantings form microclimates that keep the village open-air year-round, despite the region’s heat. Low-rise pavilions ranging from six to nine meters maintain a human scale throughout, their upper terraces lifting visitors into the canopy above the plaza level.

The material palette draws from the terrain of Baja California Sur: San José stone, handcrafted brick from Puebla, pigmented concrete, naturally finished timber, and terracotta give each cluster its own tone. Planting operates with the same spatial intention as masonry—native palms, cacti, and flowering species composing outdoor rooms rather than serving as ornament.

At the sea end of the village’s axis, Arte Abierto anchors its cultural life. The first public art gallery in Los Cabos, it sits below grade between two site-cut stone walls and a single floating slab. Visitors descend by ramp or stair into a compressed passage where the walls rise and the sky narrows to a sliver—a moment of suspension before the space opens to the gallery below, where light, sea breeze, and art converge.

In a region defined by private resort development, Ánima makes the case that nature and public life can define commercial space—not as amenities added after the fact, but as the project’s foundation.