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Residencial

Treehouse
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
2025

A glass volume wrapped in a lightweight skin, blurring the boundary between shelter and landscape.

ALCANCE

Arquitectura

ÁREA

680 sqm

STATUS

Under construction

Treehouse is conceived as a lightweight volume immersed in the landscape, where a glass enclosure is wrapped by a permeable outer skin. This second layer creates a transition between interior and exterior, allowing the house to remain visually open while providing shade, privacy, and protection from the surrounding climate. Rather than separating the occupant from its surroundings, the architecture frames the landscape as an active part of everyday life.

The interior is organized around the relationship with the surrounding landscape, allowing each space to maintain a direct visual connection with the trees and vegetation. The lightweight envelope creates different degrees of openness throughout the day, shifting between transparency, shade, and privacy as natural light changes. This relationship makes the landscape more than a backdrop; it becomes an essential element of the experience of living in the house.

The landscape becomes part of the architecture, while the envelope responds to the climate.

The project incorporates passive environmental strategies to reduce its dependence on mechanical systems. The outer skin works as a solar filter, limiting direct exposure and reducing heat gain before it reaches the glazed envelope. This creates a more controlled interior environment while maintaining natural light and views. The design is complemented by photovoltaic panels for clean energy generation and a rainwater collection system that supports a more responsible use of water.

The result is a house that uses its envelope as both an architectural and environmental tool. The relationship between glass, shade, and landscape creates a space that is open without sacrificing privacy, while passive strategies and resource-efficient systems allow the project to respond to its environment with greater efficiency.

Passive strategies reduce heat gain and energy demand while maintaining natural light, views, and comfort.

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