Casa Calma - Carazo Arquitectura

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PROJECT
CASA CALMA

YEAR
2019

TYPOLOGY
HOUSING

AREA
96 M²

STATUS
BUILT

LOCATION
COBANO
PUNTARENAS, COSTA RICA

PHOTOGRAPHER
CÉSAR BELIO

TO ENTER THIS HOUSE IS TO STEP OUTSIDE.

The architecture reverses the usual order of domestic space: nature is not a view to be framed, but a presence to inhabit. At the heart of the project lies an interior garden — not ornamental, but structural. It defines how air circulates, how light filters, and how privacy unfolds. This garden organizes the plan and gives rhythm to daily life; it is both threshold and destination.

The house reveals itself through a sequence of porous limits — from open to enclosed, shared to intimate. Concrete, teak, and modular brick create a language of measured exposure, where the landscape seeps in through every surface.

Here, to enter outside means to live between walls that breathe. Nature becomes architecture: it organizes, breathes, protects, and softens.