CASA PLAYA COSTA RICA
RESIDENTIAL
Client Private
Location Costa Rica
Program Seasonal Houses
Area 1200 m² / 12,917 ft²
Status In design
Location Costa Rica
Program Seasonal Houses
Area 1200 m² / 12,917 ft²
Status In design
Casa Playa Costa Rica transforms slope, jungle, ocean, and seasonal life into a dispersed order of dwelling.
Located on a wedge-shaped site descending toward protected jungle and beachfront in Costa Rica, the project is conceived as a series of pavilions shaped by ground, vegetation, horizon, and climate. Rather than placing a single object on the land, the house is distributed across the site, allowing each volume to respond to contour, shade, view, privacy, and arrival.
Located on a wedge-shaped site descending toward protected jungle and beachfront in Costa Rica, the project is conceived as a series of pavilions shaped by ground, vegetation, horizon, and climate. Rather than placing a single object on the land, the house is distributed across the site, allowing each volume to respond to contour, shade, view, privacy, and arrival.
The architecture begins with the relationships already present: the fall of the land, the density of the tropical forest, the openness of the ocean horizon, the movement of air, and the rituals of seasonal occupation. Pavilions rotate and bend with the site, forming a sequence of rooms, courts, paths, terraces, and thresholds. Movement becomes the structure of the project, connecting moments of gathering and retreat across the landscape.
Casa Playa does not treat nature as scenery. Jungle, slope, climate, and horizon become the spatial structure of daily life. Roofs create shade and shelter. Paths slow arrival. Openings orient rooms toward distance and vegetation. Courtyards and terraces gather light, air, and family life. The project creates a world of retreat where privacy and openness, shelter and exposure, ocean and forest are held in one order.
Casa Playa does not treat nature as scenery. Jungle, slope, climate, and horizon become the spatial structure of daily life. Roofs create shade and shelter. Paths slow arrival. Openings orient rooms toward distance and vegetation. Courtyards and terraces gather light, air, and family life. The project creates a world of retreat where privacy and openness, shelter and exposure, ocean and forest are held in one order.
The result is not simply a seasonal house in Costa Rica. It is a way of living between earth and sky: a place where architecture allows the landscape to become inhabitable, and where daily life unfolds through ground, canopy, horizon, movement, and return.
