A house that reminds you
of your human scale.
The brief was simple:
a house that would exalt
views from everywhere.
The answer was more ambitious. Not just to see the landscape — to inhabit it from multiple heights, multiple angles, multiple emotional states. A unique piece that would step down the slope of Senderos as if it had always been there, emerging from the terrain rather than placed upon it.
Villa Fuste is born from an idea of total connection with nature — but not the soft, contemplative connection. The connection that reminds you who you are against the landscape. The one that overwhelms you when you enter the triple-height main volume. The one that makes you feel like an ant under the massive concrete pilotis, immense like tree trunks seen from the forest floor.
That is the fuste: the trunk body between root and branches. The part that supports. The one with impossible scale when you look up from below. This house is that — structure that speaks of nature without imitating it, that remembers it without copying it.
Spaces that overwhelm you.
Spaces that make you feel like an ant.
A house designed to
see from everywhere.
The program is organized around one premise: no space without a horizon. From the master bedroom to the living room, from the gym to the roof deck — each level has its own relationship with the Guanacaste landscape and the ocean in the distance.
The vertical lattices on the facade don't block views. They filter them, rhythm them, make them conscious. The landscape is not the background of the house — it's part of its walls. The infinity pool on the third level disappears toward the horizon, dissolving the boundary between built water and sky.
The orientation of each volume was calculated to maximize natural light and panoramic views, while the limestone concrete mass generates shade and protection from the tropical sun.
Concrete, limestone and wood.
What lasts.
Villa Fuste's material palette responds to the dry landscape of Guanacaste. Exposed concrete in limestone sand tones, natural stone at the base, light wood vertical lattices that breathe and move with light. There are no trendy materials — only materials that age with dignity and that time makes more honest.
The texture of concrete in the massive columns — the fustes — is not neutral: it has tactile presence, monumental scale, earth color. The same material honesty that Habitante's brief demands in every project.