Casa Osa, Costa Rica Holiday Home, Caribbean Retreat Building, Architecture Images
Casa Osa in Costa Rica
Caribbean Architecture in Central America ? design by Obra Architects
24 Apr 2019
Casa Osa
Design: Obra Architects
Location: Costa Rica

Casa Osa is a vacation retreat for an American doctor and family on the Osa Peninsula, realization of a client?s lifelong fascination with wilderness and desire for life in proximity of exuberant nature. Located on 98 hectares of virgin rainforest with views east to Golfo Dulce and west to the Pacific, the house occupies a small hill formerly mango farm, avoiding need to clear trees.

Stretching from entry of the property at the top of the hill down to the very edge of the bush at bottom, the different wings orient themselves according to the contours rotating in plan in relationship to one and other as they descend and privileging with their discrete axes of symmetry multiple points of fugue that structure the views of the forest around with silent invisible geometries. Organized this way, the sequence of arrival takes place descending the hill through the house itself, alternating between the stasis of the rooms articulated as simple boxes open to the benign weather on all sides with traditional double-sloped roofs and the connecting stepped ramps protected by a more complex triangulated surface. The house proposes as intimate as possible a collaboration with nature, defining the space as it often does as a sequence of descending ga...