Residences
Revisiting Casa del Bosque, one year on
How a full remodel above San José has softened into daily life — the surfaces that improved with use, and the few we would edit again.
8 min read
A slow record of the studio's thinking — residences visited, materials studied, and conversations with the makers, architects, and stewards who shape how we live in Costa Rica.
01—04
Journal
A slow record
The Journal is written in the same register as the residences we represent — unhurried, considered, and quietly specific. Quarterly essays and shorter field notes gather what the studio has been reading, visiting, and building: houses in progress, materials worth waiting for, the makers we return to season after season.
01 — Collection
Residences
02 — Collection
Materials
Materials
Honed limestone, from quarry to threshold
Notes from a visit to a small Guanacaste quarry, and the reasons we keep specifying the same pale stone across otherwise unrelated houses.
6 min read
03 — Collection
Places
Field Notes
On slowness, and the houses that reward it
A short essay on the residences we return to — and the quiet decisions, made years earlier, that let them age without hurry.
7 min read
Landscape
Reading the Central Valley from a ridgeline
A morning walk above the fog, and what a slower survey of the land tends to change about the house we eventually draw.
6 min read
04 — Collection
Craft
Craft
The case for hand-plastered walls
Why we choose an imperfect surface troweled by hand over the machined flatness that has become the default in new Costa Rican homes.
5 min read
05 — Collection
Conversations
Conversations
A conversation with an oak-and-linen maker in Cartago
One workshop, three generations, and a way of building furniture that has quietly shaped much of what we place inside our clients' homes.
9 min read