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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Beach Front Gardens in Punta Arenas, Costa Rica by LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

 
May 21st, 2019 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

This is a residential complex of 2 houses developed in a beautiful beach front property in a very exclusive area of the Peninsula de Nicoya. Both houses sits in a very open terrace with a gentle topography, surrounded by trees overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the white sandy beach of Playa Hermosa.

Private and Social areas with big openings where planned to open their space to the ocean, gardens and forest that surround this tropical beach.

Each house was designed for users to experience the tropical weather and beautiful nature, and every single space of both houses has a great relation with the exterior, bringing in the natural light to all the interior areas and looking for cross ventilation using the sea breeze year around.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

  • Architects: LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN
  • Project: Beach Front Gardens
  • Location: Playa Hermosa de Cobano, Punta Arenas, Costa Rica
  • Photography: Fernando Alda
  • Collaborators: Daniela Cespedes, Tatiana Fonseca
  • Principals: Luis Mauricio Solis & Rodolfo Tinoco
  • Engineering: S3 Ingenieros
  • Builder: Jimaco Constructores
  • Surface: 750 square meters
  • Year: 2017 – 2018

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Around a 65% of the interior areas are covered by green roofs reducing the footprint of the project in this protected environment.

‘Casa Sare’, sits in a flattest area of the property and very close to the beach, emulating a ‘V’ shape that separates private area from social areas with an exterior terrace that communicate all the spaces.

An operable Louvers system let the interior corridor open the space in between bedrooms and the exterior terrace, giving the opportunity the bedrooms to open their views to the ocean. Once these Louver system is open, Interior gardens allocated in between the bedrooms, social and services areas, open channels for the wind to flow all around the interior areas reducing the temperature and giving more comfort to the house.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Casa Caracali is allocated  in a higher area of the property, over a gentle topography, looking for the best views. Every room of this house has big slider doors systems that opens towards the Ocean and the beach.

Social area is sits at the back with the higher level of the house and bed rooms overlaps towards the beach and step down the levels as they get closer to the beach following the existent topography.

Materials and finishes for this project were selected to reduce maintenance because of the proximity to the ocean and the tropical elements. It was also important for the design to bled both structures in to the nature and reduce the visual impact from the beach and the air.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

Image Courtesy © LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

Image Courtesy © LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

Image Courtesy © LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

Image Courtesy © LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

Image Courtesy © LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

Image Courtesy © LSD – LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN

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Categories: Garden, House, Residential, Swimming Pool




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