This 2016 Costa Rican Home Predicted Today’s Climate-Responsive Design Trends
As architects worldwide grapple with rising energy costs and extreme weather events, a nearly decade-old project in Costa Rica offers increasingly relevant solutions. Benjamin Garcia Saxe’s Ocean Eye residence, completed in 2016 on Santa Teresa Beach, pioneered adaptive design strategies that feel more urgent and necessary today than ever before. The home’s movable walls, zero-energy…