Within the Costa Rican jungle, a concrete home with spectacular ocean views

Studio Home is ready deep inside the densely forested shoreline of Costa Rica – a strikingly elemental residence designed by Dagmar Štěpánová of Formafatal. The a number of award-winning structure studio, which has outposts in each Costa Rica and the Czech Republic, has created a residence with out clearly outlined boundaries, its angular concrete types pushing into the verdant hillside.

Enter the Costa Rican jungle, and Studio Home

Štěpánová describes the venture as a ‘easy but spatially wealthy residence that creates distinctive moments at each flip – [it is] born from the concord of structure and place…. visually and spatially open but wrapped in a inexperienced mantle that protects its intimacy and fragility.’ The 125 sq. metre venture was designed as her personal everlasting dwelling, in addition to serving as a ‘seasonal retreat’ for buddy and companion Karel Vančura.

With such a private venture, the architect had scope to experiment, beginning with the construction that anchors the two-structure construction into the sloping web site. By elevating the higher flooring dwelling space above a compact floor flooring, the home seems to drift above the greenery – the small footprint required by the foundations preserved close by mature bushes.

The doorway is on the higher flooring, main from a terrace into a protracted open plan kitchen, eating and dwelling space aligned north-south. To the south is the ocean, with a terrace opening out from the dwelling house. There’s additionally house to take a seat out on the flat roof, and the distant jungle setting and fewer stringent security rules has enabled the architects to dispose of any balustrades or railings, protecting the view unobstructed.

While the opposite openings in the lounge have sliding panels of glass, the south-facing window is totally open to the weather. ‘A dwelling scene, shifting with each second of the day, flows by means of the home and merges again into the encompassing jungle,’ says Štěpánová , ‘All current jungle, air, sound, and lightweight awaken all senses, dissolving the boundaries between inside and exterior. As an alternative of a passive observer trying by means of a window, one turns into part of it.’

The monumental kitchen counter is fashioned from poured concrete, a method that has additionally been used to create the beneficiant in situ barbeque on the east terrace, the place it stands like a small architectural barrier in opposition to the dense jungle.

From this terrace, a staircase constructed from folded Corten metal results in the roof, while one other stair leads all the way down to the triangular 10m infinity pool, which tapers to a degree because the vegetation takes over.

On the decrease flooring are two an identical cell-like bedrooms, alongside a toilet (tucked beneath the doorway platform) and a retailer and utility house. There’s one other terrace right here, main on to the pool – that is the one entry strategy to the bedrooms.

Inside, furnishings are minimal with an emphasis on hard-wearing supplies that may put on and patinate over time. Štěpánová has included work by artists Josef Achrer Jr and Lukáš Musil, together with textiles from Prague-based Studio Geometr.

The brand new home is positioned on the identical plot as Achioté, Formafatal’s earlier pair of Costa Rican retreats.

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