A pool among the treetops.
Some projects are solved
from form. This one was solved
from the tree.
The pool is not on the ground — it's suspended among the canopy, at the height where the tropical forest closes its roof. From inside, swimming is inhabiting the canopy. The entire house is organized around that experience.
The brief was a residence in Tamarindo. The answer was an elevated house — not to dominate the landscape, but to inhabit it from within. The structure rises to meet the natural shade of existing vegetation. The pool floats among the branches: a mirror of water that brings coolness and refracted light into every space.
There is no clear boundary between inside and outside. Spaces open toward the treetops, the breeze crosses freely from facade to facade, and heat dissipates without mechanical systems. The architecture does what the forest already knew how to do.
Materials that come from the place.
The palette was not chosen for aesthetics — it was dictated by the environment. Black steel for the structure, teak wood on ceilings and walls, stone and marble in the interiors. Each texture reinforces the same idea: the house is an extension of the forest, not an imposition upon it.
The corten steel lattice on the facade mediates between interior and exterior. Its organic pattern filters light, sifts wind, and projects shadows that change throughout the day. It doesn't decorate: it protects and reveals.
Designed for the tropics.
The lattice that
filters and reveals.
The organic pattern of the corten steel lattice is not decoration — it is active architecture. It regulates light, protects from direct sun, projects shadows that change with the hours and dialogue with the forest. It is the threshold between the built and the living.