Casa Beer Fuscaldo

Casa Beer Fuscaldo I is a weekend house on Costa Rica’s Central Pacific coast, conceived by the architect for himself as designer, client, and builder. More than framing the meeting of the Herradura mountains and the Pacific horizon, the project seeks to construct memory through sensory experiences that unfold gradually in movement. It is also the clearest convergence of four recurring architectural ideas: emergence from landscape, tactile-sensory space, the tropical patio as spatial heart, and the intuitive geometric field.

The house is organized around a square central patio whose column grid makes the structural rhythm perceptible throughout. The social wing unfolds in three successive stages. At its center lies the dining room — effectively the patio itself — immersed in vegetation, the sound of water, and light descending from above. Beyond it, the living room expands beneath high coffered timber ceilings, functioning as an antechamber to the exterior terrace where the architecture reduces itself to shelter and horizon. These three stages are tied together by a continuous thread of water: an interior fountain that gathers rainwater, widens toward the pool, and extends visually toward the sea.

The relationship with the mountain from which the house emerges is constructed materially. River stone paving, exposed concrete block columns and beams, and clay block walls establish a palette of mass, texture, and color. Exposed and finished alike, these materials detach into independent planes that recur throughout the project, accumulating into a coherent sensory field reinforced by custom timber furniture that adds warmth, gravity, and permanence to the experience.

Over eighteen years of continuous occupation, the house has remained in transformation — never entirely finished, always adjusting, searching for equilibrium between immediate experience and the memories it leaves behind.

Location: Herradura, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Area: 900 m²
Status: Built