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Athletic Center at the Gilded Iguana in Guanacaste
4 Mar 2020
The Athletic Center
Architects: Studio Saxe
Location: Nosara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Costa Rica Athletic Center creates small village amongst tree tops.

As an extension to the Gilded Iguana Hotel in the town of Nosara, The Athletic Center was designed as a small village amongst the trees that creates a public space which integrates locals with visitors with similar interests of pursuing an active lifestyle and wellbeing.

The site is situated in an incredibly central location acts as a perfect ?adhesive? for retail, sports, and leisure which in turn coexist within the exuberant nature. A surf-shop, bike-shop, gym, and multiple studios for Jiu Jitsu, yoga, and personal massages create the perfect atmosphere for those wishing to come to Costa Rica in search of activity and fun.
Studio Saxe and the client wanted to explore intelligent ways of adapting a complex and diverse program of spaces within the existing framework of trees and wildlife of the site. Human activity is intended to co-exist in symbiotic relationship with the natural world in order to accentuate the path towards wellbeing.

Studio Saxe decided to break the mass of what could be a large building into separate pieces of program that in turn could fit within the voids around the existing trees, whilst interconnecting them with bridges an...