Designed in 2016 by Cañas Arquitectos, House Cocobolo is located on a high cliff looking out towards the ocean, in Costa Rica.

Description
Perched on the edge of 40 meter high cliff looking out towards the ocean horizon and mainland to the southeast, sits House Cocobolo.
It is named after the trees that live on the forest and river canyon right next to the house.
It is beside this forest that you approach the house from the north, from which the view to the oceanic horizon is seen only partially through the vegetation and landscape.
It is ventilated passively, which makes the most use of the abundant cool breeze of the cliff, and lets you immerse yourself even more into the place.
You arrive a meter or so above the site, and descend into the niche between a hill and the forest into which the house is placed. Walking down wide fingered steps that grope into the ground you arrive at the entrance which is marked by a roughly textured concrete roof. The main door opens into a small hallway of double height. In front a low wall giving intimacy to the arrival and privacy to the rest of the house. To the right ? a hanging solid wooden staircase above a river stone garden that extends beyond the glass wall behind to the surrounding garden.
To the left a Cor-ten metal volume in the ceiling extends into the hallway and beckons in.
Beyond and down a few roughly textured concrete steps, you see the tall spaced living room whose floor extends out through frameless g...