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MAYA UTZ'IIL - TEA HOUSE
Project by: Tribe Lab
Location: San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala
Program: Cultural Center
Size: 350 m2 (Total Center)
Status: Completed
Client: LEMA
Year: 2015 - 2016
Photographs: Aaron Yeo
Maya Utz'iil is a cultural center initiated by and built for LEMA, a women's cooperative that creates local textile and garments.
We designed a center with multiple pavilions, sprouting out of the tropical vegetation.
The Tea House is a structure built with locally sourced materials (timber, bamboo and stones) that hosts cultural activities and enables communal cooking and dining.

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