The soft and nuanced reflections of light and landscape have been designed to enrich the marble of the wall embedded in the ground and the floor.
To give continuity to the landscape, recomposing its topography and vegetation, establishing a dialogue in texture and color, thus appearing as a timeless element that delimits and frames, in a tense horizontal gesture, with the valley at its feet.
This is how a group is born, a family of six houses that, forming a cohesive group, become independent in their staggered arrangement and in their individual gaze on the surrounding landscape.
Joan Puigcorbé / María K Hawkins / Daniel Cisneros, The ArchitectsThe marble called 'Olimpic Striato' is solid and elegant and is in all rooms, providing all interiors with the “sobriety and tranquillity of the eternal”.
"The articulation of the interior program is carried out through an abstract landscape made up of repetition and diffuse reflections," the architects said in the design description.
"A landscape-hallway flooded with overhead light that connects us vertically with the earth and the sky. A linear landscape reveals to us in a continuous sequence, the spaces that one by one frame the exterior views; open spaces to the porch, the water, the garden and the sky. Spaces with a light, ethereal atmosphere."
Project details
Architects: Joan Puigcorbé / María K Hawkins / Daniel Cisneros
Company name: INEDIT
Location: Calle Lajas. Santa Ana. San José. Costa Rica
Lot Size: 888 square metres
Floor Area: 570 square metres
Completion Year: 2019
Other participants: Silvia Matamoros / Felipe Sanabria / Pascual Roche