Champalimaud revitalises hurricane-ravaged Su Casa villa in Puerto Rico
New York studio Champalimaud has transformed a 1920s residence that was destroyed by a hurricane into a luxury holiday home on a resort in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
Called Su Casa, the property forms part of the Dorado Beach Ritz-Carlton Reserve, which was ravaged by the Caribbean island's deadly Hurricane Maria in 2017.
The residence was built in 1928 by Clara Livingston, a pilot whose father owned the 1,400-acre (566-hectare) property in Dorado, to replace a wooden plantation house that was wrecked by the 1903 Hurricane San Felipe.
Livingston sold the property to Laurence Rockefeller, a third generation of the wealthy American Rockefeller family, who turned the house and the surrounding lush site into the Dorado Beach resort in 1958. Livingston's property was renamed as Su Casa, which translates to your house, and used as a restaurant and a golf house.
Luxury hotel group Ritz Carlton took over the property in 2012 and has run the house as a private holiday home for families and large groups. In 2018, it enlisted New York-based studio Champalimaud to oversee the renovation of the home, following the aftermath of the hurricane.
"The property was still destroyed," Champalimaud's principal designer Anna Beeber told Dezeen. "It just looked like something had blown through: floors were buckled, doors wouldn't close and half the roof was gone."
Beeber and fellow principal Elisabeth Rogoff designed the renovation with the aim to restore the key characteristics...
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