The house was self built. The wood for the terraces and closet and kitchen walls was cut from trees on site; hence every piece is different from the next.

The Bamboo was cut from a family farm during full moon, then submerged in Diesel in order to cure it and dried under shade. Later it was cut into 15cm pieces and finished in maritime varnish.

The House

• Architect: Benjamin Garcia Saxe
• Site: Playa Avellanas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
• Type Of Project: Residential (Coastal)
• Total area: 100m2 of which 48m2 are terrace
• Total cost: 40,000USD
• Year of contest: N/A
• Year of project: Jan 2010 (completion)
• Year of construction: Built between 2008-2009
• Client: Helen Saxe Fernandez 
• Collaborators: none
• Structural engineering: Benjamin Garcia Saxe
• Installations engineering: Benjamin Garcia Saxe
• Acoustic engineering: none
• Lighting: none
• Quantity surveyor: none
• Contractor: Self Build
• Photography: Benjamin Garcia Saxe, Andres Garcia Lachner, and Isabel Amador
• Software: hand drawings, plans in Autocad, 3D in Vectorworks and  Sketchup
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