The architectural studio OsArquitectura has built the house that we present today. An isolated dwelling in the forest located only 3km away from the coast.

The house designed by OsArquitectura is conceived as an abstract construction of opaque planes and transparent cloths that allow to maintain the privacy of the users while it is related and opened to the surrounding vegetation.
 

Description of the project by OsArquitectura

The house is located in a touristic coastal village en Tamarindo’s Beach, in Guanacaste. Placed merely 3 km from the coast, the house lies on the slide of a small mountain covered by a secondary forest. 

This forest and the relationship between the house and the topography make you live and be related with the treetops, between which the roofs of the house are woven like a series of leaves, which direct the lighting and the natural ventilation. 

The house is isolated, inserted in and surrounded by the forest and, as such, all its social part is open towards it by a glass.  The entirely private área is contained between the cut of the ground and the central wall that divides the private from the social sides. 

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OsArquitectura - John Osborne
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Project Manager
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Melissa Araya Ramirez
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Project Team
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Adrian Guevara, Arthur Micheron
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Structure.- Ing. Adrian Moreno
Electromechanical.- EM Ingenieros, Ing. Alberto Bonilla, Ing. Orlando Bazan
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Builder
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Juan Carlos Delgado
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Areas
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225sqm, 137sqm roofed
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John Osborne is Bachelor in Architecture “Universidad del Diseño” San Jose, Costa Rica. Project Architect at “RoTo Architects” Los Angeles, California from 2000 to 2006. Principal and co-Founder at “Laboratory Sustaining Design” Guanacaste, Costa Rica since 2006 to 2009. Principal and Founder “Os Arquitectura” Guanacaste, Costa Rica / Los Angeles, California since 2009

Awards and Involvement
1998.- ACSA / OTIS “Honorable Mention for Otis International Design Award” .
1998-2000.- 3rd year Design Studio Assistant Professor “Universidad del Diseño” San Jose, Costa Rica.
2000.- ACSA / OTIS “2nd Place and finalist for Elevator Urban Housing Otis International Design award” Istambul, Turkey.
2000.- Invited speaker at International Architecture Conference “MUNDANEUM” San Jose, Costa Rica.
2001.- Archiprix International Thesis Competition Nominee.
2001-2006.- Led Award winning projects for RoTo Architects ”Proposal for World Trade Center”, “CD7 Pacoima CIty Hall”, “Lucibello Confalone Amalfi Master Plan and Spa.
2003-2006.- Assistant Studio Professor to Michael Rotondi at “Southern California Institute of Architecture”.
20010.- Featured project in “revista Su Casa” for Osmosis House.
2011.- Nominated for International Young Architects Marcus Prize Award.
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Published on: May 29, 2017
Cite: "Open to the landscape, under white plans. Casa las Hojas by OsArquitectura" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/open-landscape-under-white-plans-casa-las-hojas-osarquitectura> ISSN 1139-6415
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