Alvarez Arquitectos

Brisas Del Cabo House

Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio

BRISAS DEL CABO HOUSE

José Manuel Álvarez Cruz

ELECTRIC ENGINEER
R. Palma

SURVEYOR
Edgardo Rodriguez

AREA
579 m²

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
José Manuel Álvarez Cruz

LOCATION
Malpais, Costa Rica

CONSTRUCTION
Alex Skinner

CATEGORY
Houses

Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio

Text description provided by architect.

Hidden in the mountains of Malpais, Cobano, is the soul-escape retreat that is Brisas del Cabo House.

Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House

This project, completed in 2014, pursued among other things to maximize the appreciation of the incredible view in the property. 

At the same time, we needed to achieve a balance between our clients’ needs of comfort and relax and a nice and fresh design.

Enjoying the life outside was one of the thematic focuses of the designing process.

Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio

With the use of natural and crossed ventilation, the house’s inhabitants can enjoy the common areas without the need of artificial artifacts to generate a cooler sensation, even in the very hot ours of the midday.

The large covered terraces, (that remind us of the wisdom of our grandfathers who used to build big corridors in the old “casas guanacastecas), allow direct contact with nature, and the line between inside and outside virtually disappear.

Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio

The spacious common areas, both internal and external, were designed as open spaces, which allow an easy interaction in the people from various points of the house.

The existing vegetation in the rest of the property was preserved intact, and that fact has resulted in a variety of fauna that can be observed in the surroundings of the house, increasing the sensation of being in close to nature and in balance with the environment.

Brisas Del Cabo House
Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio

About the architect: Born in Cóbano, in the north Pacific cost of Costa Rica, and where most of his work is located. He is familiar since he was a child with the weather, the places, beaches and materials of this area, and all of that has resulted in a palette that he implements in his designs.

Supporter of the bioclimatic design, he seeks to apply his knowledge to tropicalize the architecture.

He sees warily at those that sometimes build with concepts and criteria from the cities, or from other countries where the weather is so different than this beautiful coast, with our dry or rainy tropical weather.

Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House

From this fact comes his interest to develop and apply the subject of the “tropicalidad” of architecture, looking always to keep the environment untouched, and to harmonize architecture with the weather, nature and the surroundings.

Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio


Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House
Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio
Brisas Del Cabo House
Brisas Del Cabo House
© Roberto D’Ambrosio


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Cortesía de José Manuel Álvarez Cruz

Alvarez Arquitectos
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