FAMM Arquitectura lets the landscape speak first at Costa Rican house

Costa Rican studio FAMM Arquitectura has created a coastal house that features overhangs and a central brick volume and was designed around preexisting trees on the site in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica.

Aptly named Casa Tres Pochotes, the 440-square metre (4736-square foot) house sits on a 2-acre site with three large pochote trees that drove the design.

Three large trees informed FAMM Arquitectura's design for Casa Tres Pochotes

"They gave us the orientation, the rhythm and even the...