Adaptive Cabins in Costa Rica: Designing for Humidity and Ventilation in the Jungle

Moises Carrasco — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Costa Rica is a small country in Central America, internationally renowned for its tourism, biodiversity, and tropical climate. Given this context, tropical design strategies for hotel design are often more studied, but residential cabin projects can represent a more surgical approach to understanding the landscape. Often situated in remote forest or jungle locations, these cabins, apart from the common tropical design strategies, have to prioritize long-term durability and low-maintenance costs, particularly in regions where access for repairs is logistically difficult. This necessitates a design philosophy that favors both structural and climatic resilience.

Espacios de Paz 2015: 5 Cities, 5 Communities, 20 Architecture Collectives

ArchDaily Team — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:30:36 +0000

Between Sunday, May 17 and Monday, May 18 projects developed under the second phase of Espacios de Paz (Spaces of Peace) were inaugurated in five cities across Venezuela. A genuine exercise in participative design, 20 Latin American architecture groups worked for five weeks with communities in neighborhoods dominated by violence, high dropout rates and crime to convert deteriorated and abandoned spaces into public places of peace.

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Adaptive Cabins in Costa Rica: Designing for Humidity and Ventilation in the Jungle

Espacios de Paz 2015: 5 Cities, 5 Communities, 20 Architecture Collectives