13/09/2026
Komorebi is a house that makes much more sense when you walk through it.
The rooms are separated into different volumes, so moving through the house means constantly crossing wooden bridges, passing through vegetation and stepping between open and enclosed spaces. At times it feels less like walking through a house and more like moving through the forest.
Photographing it, I kept coming back to those transitions. The long shadows across the walkways, the trees growing between the volumes, the openings in the roof and the moments where the ocean suddenly appears at the end of a passage.
Then you see the house from above and understand how everything comes together. A large roof connects the different pieces while the architecture below remains fragmented and open to the landscape.
I think that contrast is one of the most interesting parts of Komorebi. There is a very strong architectural structure, but when you are inside it, nature is constantly breaking through.
Casa Komorebi Casa Komorebi
Bahía Ballena, Costa Rica
Architecture & Landscape Design: Studio Saxe
Builder: Tempo Consultoria y Constr.
Photography: Álvaro Fonseca · Alvaro Fonseca