?The landscape is brought close to us by buildings?

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Architects: Cañas Arquitectos

Location: San José Province, Escazu, Costa Rica

Author Architects: Victor Cañas, Andrés Cañas, Ricardo Chaves, Sara Araya

Area: 91.0 m2

Project Year: 2012

Photographs: Jordi Miralles

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?The landscape is brought close to us by buildings? Martin Heidegger

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Room: location room or living room where one usually resides.Ficus: Any of numerous chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines belonging to the genus Ficus, of the mulberry family, having milky sap and large, thick or stiff leaves, including the edible fig, the banyan, and many species grown as ornamentals.
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The ficus was already there when the lodge arrived. The room arrived to accompany the Ficus and to highlight the place.

Floor Plan

The program could not be simpler. It?s a place where one can enjoy the view and spend afternoons and part of the evening with friends and family.

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The location selected had a slight slope towards the east and a bonsai like tree, that resembles the ones grown by its owner. 

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The view of the San Jose city with the central volcanic mountain range is spectacular, the Escazu mountains with it's Pico Blanco or White Peak , so close that you feel that...