Project material
- Category
- Bespoke Design
- Typology
- Renovation for hotel use
- Year
- 2023
- Area
- 750 m²
- Program
- Tourist house
- Location
- Anapoima, Cundinamarca
- City
- Anapoima, Cundinamarca
- Status
- Portfolio
Historic house intervention for tourism use
San José de Zocotá is the renovation of a country house in Anapoima, Cundinamarca — warm lowlands of palms, bamboo groves and a pond that mirrors the sunset. The brief: adapt it for guest use without losing the ease of a farmhouse.
The design strategy dissolves the boundary between room and garden. Folding timber louvered doors open each bedroom from side to side, so the bed, the built-in daybed and the wooden deck share the same air; light and cross-ventilation flow through the spaces without conventional windows.
Social life moves outside the house: an open-air pavilion — a flat roof on slender steel columns — gathers an open kitchen, a wood-fired oven, a grill and a central fire pit wrapped by a curved stone bench, all set on a floor of local stone. Indoors, pigmented cement tiles, exposed concrete counters and timber joinery keep the palette cool and low-maintenance.
From a commercial proposal to a finished place.
The project began as the "San José Zocotá" proposal and grew through the full arc of a studio commission: early schemes, bioclimatic analysis, SketchUp and Revit models and Lumion visualizations, all the way to the built work. That journey explains the result: decisions about shade, openness and materials were drawn first on paper and then tested against the real climate of the hacienda.
