Pacific Coast Mountain
Guanacaste · Costa RicaA hilltop between the ocean and a valley became the starting point for a self-sustaining community.
Forest reading
The 50.9% covers the green, preservation and secondary-forest areas in the 2022 advanced proposal's area schedule. It is not an official land-use classification.
A hilltop with two opposing slopes, three water springs and secondary forest, and a brief for a community that lives from the land.
Seven programme areas shaped by slope, sun, wind and water, with residents and guests kept apart and the springs and forest left untouched.
Homes on the ocean-view and sunset slopes, shared life around a bridge at the centre, and a design direction carried through to architecture and interiors.
The result: a community built around self-sufficiency rather than subdivision.
The springs and the forest aren't what is left over from the plan. They are what the community is organised around.
The full reading, from the land to the interiors.
Every map, test and drawing behind this overview, shared privately.
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