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A Brutalist-style house that cantilevers out from a hillside in Costa Rica is promoting for $2.195 million.
The vendor is Swiss photographer John Dessarzin, who beforehand labored for National Geographic and now primarily shoots landscapes, wildlife and structure. Dessarzin moved to Costa Rica, from New York in 2003, and constructed this house, plus its three visitor villas, in 2017 within the city of Atenas.
“It’s all poured concrete, metals and glass—there’s no wood,” he informed Mansion Global.
His architectural images work and publicity to totally different sorts of high-end properties impressed him to construct this property, which was designed by architect Jaime Rouillon.
“Most of the houses here are all the same, mostly neoclassical, nothing special,” Dessarzin mentioned. “So, I decided to make a house that’s a little bit different and earthquake-proof because we live in the Ring of Fire.”
The house juts out from a hillside, giving it far-reaching views of the encompassing panorama and the Costa Rican Central Valley—a favourite characteristic of Dessarzin and his spouse, Guida. The property borders land that’s protected as a chicken sanctuary, which means no neighbors—the explanation Dessarzin selected the situation.
“I like the peacefulness where we are,” he mentioned. “It’s very quiet, you’ll hear only the birds.”
Dessarzin needed a minimalist design for the principle home, which has two bedrooms—an upstairs major suite and a downstairs visitor suite—and an workplace, which Dessarzin used as his studio. The fundamental residing areas on the higher stage seamlessly open to the outside, the place there’s a patio and an infinity-edge pool.
The three visitor villas, which Dessarzin rents out on Airbnb embrace a three-bedroom, two-bathroom villa; a small studio-like villa with an en-suite toilet; and a casita, which is a “cozy one-bedroom, one-bathroom” close to the doorway to the property, in response to the itemizing with Pablo Fernandez of Engel & Völkers. He introduced the house to the market in mid-October.
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Despite the property’s secluded location, it’s just a few miles from the small village of Atenas and about 40 minutes to Costa Rica’s capital, San Jose, the place there’s an airport, procuring and hospitals, Dessarzin mentioned. The seashore is about an hour drive away.
The space attracts a big inhabitants of expats, primarily from the U.S., Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, Dessarzin added.
Eight years after constructing it, Dessarzin is parting with the property as he not needs to be an Airbnb host and is able to transfer again to Europe—he and his spouse plan to relocate to Portugal, the place she’s from.
“Also,” he mentioned, “Costa Rica has become extremely expensive.”
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