Nosara public school

ventilation openings above doors, and between wall and roof. interesting how the horizontal wood wall cladding turns into the ventilation screen simply by increasing the distance between each wood slat. also shows importance of covered outdoor space in this climate.

Animal Shelter by Rural Studio

http://inhabitat.com/hale-county-animal-shelter-by-new-rural-studio-2/

Transparent Church

Beautiful see-through church designed by Belgian architects Arnout Van Vaerenbergh and Pieterjan Gijs.

I think this is an interesting way to construct and design a wall.

Allows for great light and air and it beautiful!

http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2011/11/10/transparent-church/

Norway Boathouse

http://remodelista.com/posts/architect-visit-boathouse-by-tyin-tegnestue-in-norway

sLAB Costa Rica workshop video

ventilation screen details at local Nosara houses

another recycling center

https://picasaweb.google.com/103731399667921337958/DropBox?authkey=Gv1sRgCPP9x-2dpPjDzwE&feat=email#

Casa Kike // Cahuita // Costa Rica // Gianni Botsford Architects

http://www.archicentral.com/casa-kike-cahuita-costa-rica-gianni-botsford-architects-5259/

60' Truck + Turning Radii, Site

Marika-Alderton House, Magney House

Marika-Alderton House, Yirrkala Community, Australia Glenn Murcutt, Architect

Magney House, Australia

Glenn Murcutt, Architect

-Light weight corrugated roof, interesting shape and material connections doesn't seem too complicated.

Carruthers House, Glen Murcutt

Carruthers House, Mount Irvine Australia

Glen Murcutt, Architect

-light weight corrugated metal roof with a slope for rain collection

-tripe skin facade

-elevated off the ground

Morphosis, Pugh + Scarpa Architects

House by Morphosis
I like the roof, its interesting. It has PV panels, rain collection and rain water tanks

Pugh + Scarpa Architects

This Project is similar to an older post, but what i like about this house is that they use wood pallets as the facade. Allows for ventilation and sun shading and it is some what pre-fab.

School Solar Kitchen, Living Machine

School Solar Kitchen BASIC Initiative
Jiutepec, Morelos, Mexico
Cost $67,200

Living Machine, BASIC Initiative

Tamil Nadu, India

Coast $8,600

Four Horizons

Four Horizons - Lindsay Johnston, Architect

Australia

1,800 sq ft house

-solar water heater

- water collection

- 8 55 watt pv panels

-grey water system

- recycled polu/wool insulation

-concrete floors finished with livos hard oil and livos glevivo liquid wa, products that contain beeswax, pine oil, rosemary oil, and carnuba wax.

-Nice double roof !

Casey House

The Casey family house, Lake/Flato Architects

San Antonio, Texas

-925 sq ft house

-5,000 gallon cistern

-pv panels

-composting toilet

I like the use of sheet metal and wood together for the roof. I like the sheet metal with cedar post and beams. Its industrial and elegant. I also like the branches that cover the outdoor shower.

Gando Primary School

Gando Primary School

Gando Village, Burkina Faso

Cost, $29,830

The building is a model of passive solar design, from the cooling and ventilation provided by its double roof structure each classroom has its own mud mud brick ceiling that insulates it from hot air circulating above.

Manifesto House - designed by Chilean Architects, is a home in Chile made of premade recycled materials. It touches upon the idea that Van Nest suggested with ingenious shipping palettes becoming material to build with. I think it demonstrates what we're trying to achieve in Costa Rica - with the design intent (cross ventilation, re-used materials, etc.) The scale is alittle bit large, but there is potential here, plus, it's quite interesting in it's own right.

I'll link the web page: http://www.trendir.com/house-design/recycled-eco-house-by-chilean-architects-wood-pallets-shipping-containers.html

So I was doing some analysis on the Nicoya Recycling Center just to get an idea on the scale we'll be working at. There would be many modifications to the original design to make it look alittle bit more inspiring than this "shed" design - but there is alot of potential. This Recycling Center does pretty much everything right when it comes to designing in Costa Rica. It allows for cross ventilation; not only in the vertical axis - but overhead as well due to the material used where the walls meet the roof. Maybe we can use the same principal? The materiality makes this design cheap. There are other building materials we could use that might be better than this, but hey, it's a start.

Site Map Overlay

Contours are 5'

trying out some color options (not sure about green)

site photos

 ok, here are some site photos and a key. Vinny will be posting a composite image of google maps and  the full property plan, which will make it easier for you to orient yourself. as you can see the site is along a dirt road, to the left of the entrance to the local dump. View 6 looks from the main road right into the road that goes to the dump. Our site will be immediately to the left of that gate.

MOS afterparty PS1

http://www.archdaily.com/12798/mos-architects-wins-the-ps1-competition/

http://www.spaceinvading.com/entry/project_id/Young_Architects_Program_2009:_Afterparty200906301246376152

here is another project that came to mind that employs a performance-based roof. The higher areas of this design supposedly create stack ventilation. I dont know if this actually worked, but this may an interesting design idea for a tropical climate, which usually employs steep, very high roof ridges for stack ventilation.

On a general note, I have been meaning to organize a kick-off meeting for the project so all of you can meet, but i am still waiting to hear back from our client and the local architect about some important project details. So probably next week Tuesday afternoon we will meet, if that works for everyone...?