The desire to re-launch a boutique hotel in the heart of Morelia’s Historic Centre – a UNESCO World Heritage Site - demanded the creation of a renovated environment that honoured the family and historical heritage of the mansion gradually built through the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries. It also required the project to embrace cutting-edge ideas of hospitality in a highly touristic city. The project aimed to integrate the previously dispersed functions of the ground floor into two binding architectural elements that would also respond to the existing architecture of the building.