Designed for the Barrantes Rojas family — a young couple with three children — this project arose from a spatial paradox: a small plot and a big dream.

Their wish was to live in a traditional Costa Rican “L”-shaped house, with corridors and terraces that invite outdoor life — yet their site, an irregular 192 m² rectangle, seemed to resist that idea.

Our response was a vertical re-imagining of the Costa Rican vernacular home: an elevated composition of spaces connected through balconies and light-filled corridors that recover the essence of the “L”, preserving openness, intimacy, and the dialogue between interior and landscape within a compact footprint.

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