Atelier Villa
Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminum panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica.
Atelier Villa is part of the Art Villas resort in Playa Hermosa, an extensive property that comprises rentable houses and a multifunctional pavilion. Formafatal, led by Dagmar ?t?pánová, worked with other architects to realize the other resort buildings. It then headed the design for Atelier Villa intended as a private residence for the project’s investor.

A grass roof covered with a number of plants merges the 26-metre-long horizontal volume with its green surroundings. Large, movable aluminum and wood wall panels on the house’s exterior open the outdoors to the interiors. “The first and foremost priority is not only the idea of erasing boundaries between interior and exterior but also highlighting constructional simplicity and pure lines,” the studio said.
“The boundaries between the inside and the outside world are gone and the whole space seems like a roofed terrace,” it added. One length of the residence is clad with mottled aluminum panels, which are coated in a color that gives them a rusted look similar to Corten. The perforated boards are heat and rust-resistant and can be pulled upwards to form canopies over the wood deck that edges the house.
Photography by BoysPlayNice
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