A BEACH HOUSE
The house was to be built on a 26’-high plateau clearing in a forest on a beachfront site. The land featured coconut palms, banana trees, papaya, avocado, and lots of shrubs. The house was to be made of timber and natural fibre blocks finished in white concrete, and was to have floors and structural and ornamental elements, such as the spheric finials topping the columns of the loggia, made of limestone and volcanic rock, largely reused from excavation of the terrain. The ground floor would feature two zones, one with a large open space containing the kitchen, a dining area, and a living room, and the other with a common bathroom and the master suite. The upper floor would have four suites served by a single corridor. The bathrooms of the two inner suites would receive light from the dormers above, whereas the bathrooms of the two outer suites would receive light from wall apertures, giving the opportunity to put sleeping lofts above them. The upper suites share a continuous balcony partitioned with curtains and potted plants.
The house opens with its loggia over its grounds, which feature a courtyard with a small swimming pool, an outdoor kitchen, and a grove circumscribed by a curved wall, which is actually an extension of the wall constituting the house’s leeward façade, and a staircase carved into the limestone down the shrubby slope leading to the forest and beyond the forest the beach.
The project was cancelled, and the design and these drawings stand unfinished.
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