Ambrosi Etchegaray：Touch a tree at night. What does it tell you? Now place you ear upon the trunk. What do you hear? Do it again in the morning, during the rainy season, in the following months, during the season of drought. What is different? Is it not obvious that everything is change? That we should all transition between heat and cold, between water and thirst, between presence and void, between life and death? From these beginnings and resistances, the wabi-sabi architecture of the Guayacan Pavilion was born.

The work is an expression of materiality and space itself, where the architecture, developed by the office of AMBROSI ETCHEGARAY, conceived a pavilion that in its transition across space and time benefits from its deterioration or its assimilation into the landscape, into nature, the origin of all things. With a minimal use of materials it finds its maximum expression for presenting and nurturing the “Guaiacum Sanctum L. Zygophyllaceae”, colloquially known as Guayacan, an endemic tree included in the SEMARNAT list of endangered species. With the purpose of protecting the species, Casa Wabi, with support from the Environmental Management Unit (UMA), decided to create a nursery for the care and reproduction of the Guayacan.