Tree Home / Entre Nos Atelier
Textual content description supplied by the architects. From Entre Nos Central Atelier, we search to accompany, design, and develop an structure that promotes materials and immaterial well-being with the lively participation of our shoppers. The design premise established with the Fletcher Household was to develop, inside a restricted finances, a compact practical area that would transfer amongst and with the preexisting bushes. The ‘Tree Home’ is positioned in Alegría Village; a brand new ecological neighborhood within the rural hills of San Mateo, Alajuela, Costa Rica, devoted to the perfect practices in design and regenerative dwelling.
Collaborative Course of. By means of a co-creative course of with our shoppers, the significance of making a spatial expertise inside a compact housing unit that articulates open terraces with intimate environments was explored. It was a problem that allowed for a joint and lively understanding of the necessity to combine with nature, the administration of open areas that evoke tranquility, and which might be intimately associated to easy transition areas materialized from a restricted finances. In that sense, the home ought to evoke a way of refuge each time it shelters them from the overwhelming city life.
(In) Materials Effectively-being. The fabric and immaterial well-being of the undertaking revolves round an open tropical home, in touch with nature and profiting from the panorama potential of the place. Supplies had been chosen primarily based on the restricted finances and abilities of the native workforce, choosing a light-weight building system elevated above floor degree. The piles allowed for the prevention of moisture administration, adaptability to the topography, and avoiding the constructing footprint from sealing surfaces inherent to the pure drainage of the land. Areas had been oriented primarily based on views and most utilization of cross breezes, with pure air flow being an important passive technique; accompanied by massive eaves for shading throughout important daytime and seasonal moments.
Sense. Programmatically, the home has two ranges to present which means to the spatial expertise. The primary degree accommodates a standard terrace, a small “plunge” pool, a kitchen, and a compact bed room. The second degree has a standard dwelling space and main bedroom; each linked by a fringe balcony with benches on the railings for having fun with the views. Each ranges are interconnected by transitional areas permeable to breezes and framing panoramic views.
Id. The undertaking incorporates on its exterior a screen-type ‘veil’ in native teak wooden that defines secondary entry to the pool and terrace; offering privateness to frequent areas and producing a function of identification with easy geometries discovered within the custom of our ancestral villages. The display permits for the passage of breezes, and offers prominence to wooden as the primary pores and skin of the constructing; as a catalytic constructive component of spatial heat, combining with ceilings of brava cane, structural steel grids, and stone cladding discovered on website.
