Casa Azucar is a tropical home with a modern twist

Casa Azucar was born from a client’s aspiration to reside in a ‘habitable yard pavilion’. Positioned in Costa Rica, the new home was conceived as a lush environmentally friendly getaway for its entrepreneurs. Its architects, San José-primarily based Studio Saxe, obliged, crafting a tropical retreat with a solid up to date twist that ticks all the ideal containers.

Casa Azucar by Studio Saxe

The property’s plot is situated in the heart of the town of Nosara, which meant that when it is shut to the beach front and community amenities, the feeling of seclusion and verdant surroundings the purchasers were being right after ended up perhaps trickier to recreate. The solution to this obstacle arrived in the form of a modest seasonal creek that runs throughout the site and serves as a wildlife corridor. ‘We determined to focus our attention on producing the feeling of a secluded oasis, merging architecture and landscape design and style to meticulously body all views towards the creek and the wildlife that spawned from there. The dwelling in change is conceived extra like a habitable back garden pavilion,’ the architects generate.

So the architecture workforce not only revered the current trees and ecosystem, but sought to even further assist and enrich it, ensuring the composition feels certainly embedded on its web-site and, in time, turns into engulfed in character. This ‘bridges the greatest of both equally worlds: closeness to almost everything and solitude in the forest’, the workforce make clear.

swimming pool at costa rica house casa azucar

In terms of the architecture, the Studio Saxe designers, headed by founder Benjamin G Saxe, are deft arms at building domestic ordeals that blend within and outdoors, contemporary tropical modernism, and local elements and development tactics – past illustrations include the light-weight Jungle Body Household, and the more the latest Raintree Dwelling, both equally inside of Costa Rica. The exact same approach was adopted right here the dwelling is dominated by large open spaces with glazed walls or generous home windows, and exterior locations.

kitchen at costa rica house casa azucar by studio saxe

At the identical time, the studio provides: ‘This household is a apparent reflection of our client’s temperament [they] wished to generate a cleanse beach front-like really feel, so the colours, textures, and resources preferred ended up light and comfortable. This method gave us the opportunity to implement a modern-day interior style that is both equally genuine and rooted in the previous as very well.’