Casa Kike / Gianni Botsford Architects

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Cahuita, Costa Rica

Text description provided by the architects. A few months ago i spotted this house with an amazing private library in Domus magazine, on an issue dedicated to contemporary libraries. It has a very detalied wood work. I love the bookshelves between the structure. the text from the architect, more pictures and drawings after the break.

Casa Kike / Gianni Botsford Architects - Forest, Garden

By coupling indigenous techniques and materials with modern design technologies and aesthetics GBA has created this intimate double pavilion for a writer in Costa Rica.

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A main studio space, with library, writing desk and grand piano, is the writer's daytime space. The pavilion's wooden structure, sourced from local timber, sits on a simple foundation of wooden stilts on small concrete pad foundations. Roof beams of up to 10 m long and 355 mm deep allow for an interior with no vertical columns. The mono-pitched roof elevates towards the sea shore, while the interior is through ventilated via a completely louvred glazed end façade.

Casa Kike / Gianni Botsford Architects - Forest, Handrail, Garden

Set at a short distance along a raised walkway, a second smaller pavilion mirrors the first. This contains sleeping quarters and a bathroom. Externally, the pavilions are clad in corrugated steel sheeting, another locally used construction material. The overall effect is that of a building which blends with its surroundings, both visually and environmentally.

Casa Kike / Gianni Botsford Architects - Garden

© photographs copyright christian richters

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Cite: "Casa Kike / Gianni Botsford Architects" 08 Jul 2008. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/3611/casa-kike-gianni-botsford-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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