Project: Cocobolo House Architects: Cañas Arquitectos Author: Arq. Victor Cañas Design team: Arq. Sara Araya, Arq. Andrés Cañas, Arq. Ricardo Chaves Location: Montezuma, Puntarenas, Costa Rica Year 2016 Photographer: Arq.Victor Cañas, Livio Macchia

项目：Cocobolo House Architect：CA as ArquArchtos作者：ARQ。维克多·卡尼亚斯设计团队：ARQ。萨拉·阿拉亚，阿克。安德烈斯·卡尼亚斯(Andrés Ca as)Ricardo Chaves地点：Montezuma，Puntarenas，哥斯达黎加2016年摄影师：Arq.Victor Ca as，Livio Macchia

Description by Cañas Arquitectos: Perched on the edge of 40 meter high cliff looking out towards the ocean horizon and mainland to the southeast, sits Cocobolo House. It is named after the trees that live on the forest and river canyon right next to the house. It is beside this forest that you approach the house from the north, from which the view to the oceanic horizon is seen only partially through the vegetation and landscape. It is ventilated passively, which makes the most use of the abundant cool breeze of the cliff, and lets you immerse yourself even more into the place.

卡尼亚斯·阿奎托斯描述：坐落在40米高的悬崖边缘，眺望着海洋地平线和东南方向的大陆，坐落着Cocobolo House。它是以住在房子旁边的森林和峡谷上的树木命名的。就在这片森林的旁边，你从北方接近这座房子，从那里只能部分地从植被和景观中看到海洋地平线。它是被动通风的，它最大限度地利用了悬崖上充足的凉风，让你更多地沉浸在这个地方。

You arrive a meter or so above the site, and descend into the niche between a hill and the forest into which the house is placed. Walking down wide fingered steps that grope into the ground you arrive at the entrance which is marked by a roughly textured concrete roof. The main door opens into a small hallway of double height. In front a low wall giving intimacy to the arrival and privacy to the rest of the Cocobolo house.

你到达工地上方一米左右，然后下降到一座小山和房子所在的森林之间的小生境中。走在宽阔的指尖台阶上，摸索着进入地面，你到达了入口，它的标志是一个粗糙的混凝土屋顶。大门打开，通向一个双高的小走廊。在一堵低矮的墙前，给了客人们以亲密的感觉，也给了Cocobolo房子的其他人留下了隐私。

To the right – a hanging solid wooden staircase above a river stone garden that extends beyond the glass wall behind to the surrounding garden.

右边是一个悬挂在河石花园上方的实木楼梯，从后面的玻璃墙延伸到周围的花园。

To the left a Cor-ten metal volume in the ceiling extends into the hallway and beckons in.

在左边，天花板上有一个Cor-10金属卷延伸到走廊并招手进去。

Beyond and down a few roughly textured concrete steps, you see the tall spaced living room whose floor extends out through frameless glass doors into a high terrace beyond. The terrace, in turn, extends out on two sides towards an infinity black pool and wet terrace with water at floor level, which act like a black water mirror that effectively mirrors the horizon and clouds beyond. This has the effect of visually wrapping the space with the ocean.

除了几层粗糙的混凝土台阶，你会看到一个很高的客厅，它的地板穿过无框玻璃门延伸到一个高的露台。然后，该地坪在两侧向一个无限大的黑池和潮湿的平台延伸，在地板上有水，这就像一个黑水镜，它能有效地反映出地平线和云彩。这具有用海洋视觉包裹空间的效果。

As you approach these stairs you ultimately arrive underneath the Cor-ten volume, which turns out to be a long meter wide line of the same metal that extends out toward the ocean, across and above the built-in concrete dining table, the terrace and Cocobolo tree beyond and then juts out over the cliff like a metal finger pointing to the horizon. This is the floor of the balcony that extends from the main bedroom above.

当你走近这些楼梯的时候，你最终到达了Cor-10体积下面，这是一条长一米宽的金属线，向海洋延伸，穿过和高于内置的混凝土餐桌，露台和Cocobolo树延伸到悬崖上方，就像一个金属手指指向地平线。这是阳台的地板，从主卧室延伸到上面。

Beside the dining space is the kitchen, both open to a wide wooden terrace which has a water mirror at the edge of the cliff which also reflects the ocean. In this mirror is a fire pit. Above the kitchen and dining area are two bedrooms and a shared bathroom. Both face the ocean and this terrace. Behind the kitchen far wall is an office space, a small bathroom and pantry.

餐厅旁边是厨房，两处都通向一个宽阔的木制露台，悬崖边缘有一面水镜，同时也反射着海洋。镜子里有个火坑。厨房和餐厅上方有两间卧室和一个共用浴室。都面对着海洋和这个露台。厨房后面的墙后面是一个办公室，一个小浴室和储藏室。

As you climb down into the living room, you see to the left, a forest, to the right and front- the ocean.

当你爬下客厅时，你会看到左边，一片森林，右边和前面-大海。

When you reach the terrace, you see that it has a double and a half height, and placed around this space, one on the terrace itself, and the other in the ground towards the forest, are two thin, high round white columns which hold up the large overhanging eaves of the roof. From here you see the finger balcony and cocobolo tree to the above right.

当你到达露台时，你会发现它有一个双倍半高的高度，围绕着这个空间，一个放在露台本身，另一个放在地面上，朝向森林，是两根又薄又高的圆形白色柱子，它们支撑着屋顶上的巨大突出的屋檐。从这里你可以看到手指阳台和可可树在上面的右边。

Atop the living room, is placed the main bedroom. From there you also see the beach line below. Beside the bedroom is the main bathroom, which faces the forest. It is from this bedroom that the finger balcony extends out from, in fact it it that which greets you when you enter.

起居室顶上，摆放着主卧室。从那里你也可以看到下面的海滩线。卧室旁边是主浴室，面向森林。正是从这间卧室伸出的手指阳台，实际上是你进门时向你问好的地方。

Coming up from the hanging solid wooden staircase from the first floor, you walk beside the entrance to the two other bedrooms to your right. Pass beside the open space down to the entrance hall and a ventilating breezeway, and towards the end of the corridor, marked by the volume that you saw from the entrance hall, and a wooden floor which steps up, both which mark the entrance, to the main bedroom.

从一楼悬挂的实木楼梯上走过来，你走在另外两个卧室的入口处右边。从空地旁边经过入口大厅和一条通风的微风道，靠近走廊的尽头，从门厅看到的音量，还有一层木地板，这两层地板都是门厅的标志，都是通往主卧室的标志。

As you open the door to the main bedroom, you see another, smaller and longer Cor-ten wall, at handrail height, that starts immediately on your right, and continues outward with the wooden floor, along the length of the bedroom, through the glass door, and turns into the finger balcony. This finger balcony is a wooden pirate-plank like walkway that visually starts at the entrance of the bedroom, extends outside over the terrace below, passes beside a Cocobolo tree (which penetrates both the handrail and the roof), juts out from below the eave of the main roof, and ends with in a small open space, large enough for two chairs, with a glass rail that point out towards the ocean horizon and is placed above the 40 meter high void of granite cliff face and tropical green beach front.

当你打开通往主卧室的门时，你会看到另一堵更小更长的高墙，从扶手的高度开始，从你的右边开始，然后沿着卧室的长度继续向外延伸，穿过玻璃门，转到手指阳台。这个手指式阳台是一条木制海盗木板式的走道，从卧室入口处开始，从下面的露台向外延伸，经过一棵Cocobolo树(贯穿扶手和屋顶)，从主屋顶的屋檐下突出出来，尽头是一个小空地，足够两把椅子，还有一条玻璃栏杆，指向海洋地平线，放在40米高的花岗岩悬崖表面和热带绿色海滩前。