SPACIOUS & LUXURIOUS APPARTMENT IN RESIDENCIAL ALISIO

In the early 1960’s, the Mexican government – through its National Tourism Fund (FONATUR) – launched the development of a handful of master-planned urban centers throughout the country, among them the Maya locality of Cancún.

Four decades into this ambitious project, FONATUR would greet the new millennium with a new phase, known colloquially as “El Table”, which quickly became valued as a successful fusion of downtown practicality and the intimacy of nature.

Among the 8 eight projects built in this peaceful pocket stands Alisio Residencial.

With its 36 apartment units distributed throughout 12 stories, Alisio (Spanish for “trade winds”) was one of the last projects of the late Mexican architect Jose Adolfo Wiechers.

Completed in 2012, the angular, minimalist façade betrays Wiechers’ inclination for the brutalist and Mexican modernist styles for which he was known for.

That said, he was sensitive to the importance of respecting local essence, as is shown with the expansive common garden space populated with native plants; and unusually generous terrace spaces from which residents could appreciate the vast, ancestral “Jacinto Pat” mangrove reserve.

This apartment is a beautiful example of this vision.

Intelligent in location and distribution, the North-facing frontal façade lets the Yucatán Peninsula Sun illuminate while sidestepping the unwelcome intensity of direct solar impact.

Its expansive 80m2 (861sq ft) wraparound terrace is the perfect platform for enjoying sunsets and sunrises, while being serenaded by the songs of chachalacas and tapacaminos (Mexican whip-poor-wills), during morning or evening gatherings.

Whether its for a family looking for a spacious and peaceful home; or the seasonal visitor looking for a comfortable base to land in the Yucatán Peninsula, this 3 bedroom condo unit is an unusually generous option located in a downtown pocket of Cancun that has kept its connection to the ancestral Mayan jungle alive.

Must see.

Indoor: 1,900 sq ft

Terrace: 800 sq ft

Total: 2,800 sq ft