The symbolism of the flower is extensive, encompassed in the use of clothing, headdresses, and ritual beverages in many different regions of the country. The main theme of the project has also been concentrated around the history of the place; it was designed within an old building of which only the XIX century façade remained, and located in the downtown of the City of Cuernavaca. Elías Arquitectura respected this structure and built an interior atmosphere from it.

The architecture of Cuernavaca is identified by being directly related to its landscape. The weather offers particularities that historically have allowed for the creation of spaces where the limits between nature and construction are not too strict, that is why the garden appears as a recurring element in the way people dwell in this area. At all times, this project takes into consideration the possibility of this experience by displaying diverse moments of the history of the garden in architecture, to reinterpret it into the requirements of the program.

The garden, understood as the art of ordering and configuring a fragment of nature, had a major impulse since the Renaissance and the Baroque. However, from the moment of Pliny’s narrations, the relationship between the built environment and nature accentuated the location of a villa as an invitation to the transition between interior and exterior with the objective enjoyment of the built enclosure. [1] Leon Battista Alberti established that the unity of the house and the unity of the garden were the same and were developed from a geometric tuning. In the Flor de Mayo Hotel, the idea of unity is kept, however, it challenges the belief of the rational reign of man over nature, and in this way it allows for a more liberal growth of the vegetation. If there is a preconceived design, where different combinations and chromatic games (that extend and diversify throughout the seasons) are taken into consideration, the main objective is that nature invades and transforms into the main element of the place..