Corteza Amarillo
Casa Corteza Amarillo emerges as an architectural exploration based on the first spatial schemes conceived by Víctor Cañas. The house proposes an uncommon condition in the Costa Rican context: the hermetic walls of the façade act as a solid boundary to the exterior, while the metal structure organizes and liberates the interior space.
In this work, Cañas revisits ideas already present in earlier projects, such as the inhabitable roof. The different spaces are articulated both horizontally and vertically through bridges that function as transitions between rooms and make the passage from one domain to another perceptible. Internal gardens, ambiguous spaces, and fluid relationships between interior and exterior constantly blur the boundaries of the house.
The house operates as a laboratory of architectural experimentation in which concepts that define Cañas’s work begin to emerge: light tectonic structures, abundant natural light, and an increasing spatial permeability. Although from the outside it appears compact and closed, once inside it reveals itself as open, luminous, and deeply connected to its courtyards and gardens. The living room, the internal garden, and the library on the ground floor, together with the main bedroom and the studio on the upper levels, form a fluid and dynamic triple-height space, unified beneath a large pitched roof that articulates the whole.
