Week 8 is over

Week 8 - another hot week up at the project - with summer in full swing by 8am its already sweaty allround! Being the last week with 'Maish International' on site (aka my Israeli architect friend) there were 1001 things that needed confirming and 'clarifying' before we headed up to San Jose on yet another shopping spree. Monday and Tuesday were all about assembling the panacor walls of the second floor, carving out the windows. The 'panacor' system being the optimum material for our Jungle Villa's structure because of its durability, construction technique (much quicker than 'block', light weight and temperature control (once complete and finished with stucco. Then there was the running back and forth between local glass and aluminium suppliers. By the middle of the week we had yet another Montoya brother on site (it really is a family show here in Tres Rios), this time in the shape of an electrician. What started off as being an incredibly complicated 'planta electrica' with a clash of Costa Rican and European symbology, instalation techniques and cultures, after a few hours actually walking through each living area imagining how each indrpendant space would be used and enjoyed by our 'eco-luxury' guests - I don't think I ever realised how many options there were!! In a nutshell, lots of three-way switches, dimmers and uplighting will be the final touches of the retreat! 

Special thanks to Maish International (in the form of DonDon) for all his patience and help in whats been a hugely productive last 4-5 weeks!!! Will be very interesting to see how the next few weeks go without my 'in-house' architect on site and at hand!!!


Also, meet the team (they've been a little camera shy until now) and some great inspiration from a local project whose roof construction was constructed out of bambu (guadua) and of course the last sunset of the working week!!!
Photos courtesy of Don Don and 'Maish International'

Week 8 

Roof with Bamboo structure

The project manager managing things :)

 

The second floor

House on the beach next to a watermelon plantation

Amazing sunset on the beach