Living on the Edge of the Jungle

We love the way architecture can be such an escape from the norm.

Hovering above Costa Rica’s Pacific canopy, Villa Nuri feels much less like a house, and more like a healthy pause.

The home’s modernist design is a moment suspended between jungle and horizon.

Rather than imposing itself on the hillside, the home unfolds with it. Spaces stack gently upward, following the slope, opening wider as they rise.

Bedrooms tuck into shade and calm. Living areas stretch outward toward light, air, and distance.

The two cantilevered pools are the quiet showstopper. A thin plane of water pushed out over green depth, where swimming feels closer to floating. Would you swim in them?

It is architecture flirting with gravity, then choosing trust instead. Whew.

Throughout the house, terraces blur structure and vegetation. Wind passes freely. Birds pass through. Walls recede where views take over. The home’s design does not frame nature so much as dissolve into it.

The solar clad roof gathers clean energy freely throughout the day.

Named after a Chorotega word for “bird,” Villa Nuri lives up to its meaning. It perches lightly. It observes. It belongs without needing to dominate.

Designed by Costa Rican architecture firm Studio Saxe, the home is available for rent on platforms like Airbnb and VRBO. At over 7,000 square feet, the home sleeps ten, and rents for around $2,500 per night.

Images via VRBO and Studio Saxe.

Edited by Ben VanderVeen · About Moss & Fog