Pájaro De Plata House

PÁJARO DE PLATA HOUSE

OsArquitectura

Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda

ARCHITECTS
OsArquitectura

AUTHOR ARCHITECT
John Osborne Odio

MANUFACTURERES
Metaldesign

BUILDER
INTI BUILDERS S.A.; Carlos Velarde

TEAM
Paola Fernandez, Lucía Croccia, Adrian Guevara

STRUCTURE
Ing. Adrian Moreno

INTERIOR DESIGN
Sunderland Proctor

PROJECT DIRECTOR
Melissa Araya Ramirez

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Alda

AREA
200.0 m2

INTERIOR SURFACE
200m2

EXTERIOR ROOF SURFACE
228m2

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Los Pargos, Costa Rica

CATEGORY
Houses

Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda

Text description provided by architect.

The House sits on a mountain top in a remote beach town called Playa Negra.

It is a vacation home for a New York couple that was interested in a home away from home that not only adapted well to its surroundings but was instrumental to understanding them.

The house takes cues from local vernacular constructions of the area which in the architect’s opinion insert themselves in what Gilles Clément.

Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda
Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda

It calls the third landscape; going with rather than against natural conditions.

Notable features of the project are its ambition to encompass the entire site and thus it has an exploded floor plan.

The fragments of the floor plan are connected by means of land terraces that hint traces of a Mesoamerican past.

Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda
Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda
Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda

Its roofs attempt to stretch between structures to the point where its materiality becomes translucent.

The house is large but it is also small, the roof is big but it is also light.

Its absence of glass, filtering of natural light, and play with the wind, do not allow for separation between house and its landscape.

Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda
Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda


Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda
Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda
Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda
Pájaro De Plata House
© Fernando Alda


Pájaro De Plata House
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