Completed in 2014 by SARCO Architects, this contemporary residence is situated in Peninsula Papagayo, Costa Rica.

Description by SARCO Architects
Casa Magayon by Sarco Architects Costa Rica is located in the Peninsula Papagayo Luxury Resort in the northwest pacific region of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The project was awarded the ?Highly Commended, Architecture Single Residence Costa Rica 2013-2014? award by the International Property Awards. The home is designed to follow the natural shape of the land, which featured a linear and narrow ridge in east-west direction that turns into a sharply sloping hillside.
The home?s structure was conceived to softly sit on the natural terrain by a set of steel columns the perch the main module and all guest bedroom modules onto the land, slightly raising the structure above the ground. Almost no earth movement was done to build the home. The layout of the home is composed of a set of modules connected by outdoor covered corridors which give the house a very casual feel and allows the home to ?grow? in a modular approach. This flexibility allows the operating mass of the home to go from a small 200m2 of the basic module to the full 550m2 of overall air conditioned space. This gives the home a very high level of energy efficiency since only the spaces being occupied are in operation.
The exterior of the home is a palette of glass cubes with dark yellow exposed steel, grey and grey-olive stucco walls and natural p...