Surely, you want to have your vacations in a country where 25% of the territory is protected. Well, Costa Rica is that country, here nature is a priority. But it can be better, why not dare to have your vacation home in this paradise of white sands and green mountains. We offer our clients a wide range of services from concept development to completion of their vacation home with tropical architecture in Costa Rica.
In this article we will tell you what are the points to design and build your vacation home and we will answer some common questions.
1. What are your expectations for your vacation home in Costa Rica?
We will help you throughout the design and construction process of your ideal vacation home, and the only work you will have to do is clearly define your expectations and needs. The designer architects of Edificaciones Corbán will guide you on how to discover what those special needs and requirements are. We depend on this affirmation to develop a project that reaches and exceeds your expectations.
To give you an example, it may be that you want a house with tropical architecture to use in the summer and rent it during the rest of the year.
Clear and honest communication will help all of us reduce risks, achieve goals, and successfully complete the project.
2. What do you prefer beach or mountains?
Let's choose a location, this goes hand in hand with the first point. We have to define where you want to build your house. Costa Rica is a relatively small country, but full of radically different landscapes just minutes from each other. You can have a house in San José and be an hour and a half from the beach. Or you can have your house in the mountains and with cool weather and travel half an hour and be on the beach. We are going to decide what type of climate you want to have for your vacation home by selecting place, we have several locations to tell you.
3. Architectural program, the list of spaces for your new holiday home.
Architectural design depends on many things such as location, weather, context, terrain, and more; at least one sustainable architecture design that we want to apply for the benefit of our clients in Costa Rica.
Now, something that has a strong influence on the design of your vacation home are the spaces you want to have in your house and how the spaces are going to relate to other spaces. There is a minimum list of spaces that every house should have, such as bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, and laundry. But we are not planning to design and build an ordinary house, it is a vacation home, so the list is based on your wishes and dreams. At this stage you also have to tell us about your activities, if you like to bring friends to your house. If you are more of a family person, you prefer to carry out activities outside or if you want to grow your own food in a greenhouse. Let your imagination fly and tell us all your wishes, and the designer architects take all the information and generate a custom luxury vacation home project tailored to your needs.
3. Your preferences in materials and architectural design styles.
Let's be clear, Edificaciones Corbán architects will never copy an existing design. We firmly believe that our clients deserve custom-made designs and that nature requires adapted projects with sustainable designs. But in the creative stage we will take references from your tastes, it is more like a brainstorming in which you indicate your architecture tastes in materials and preferences. We take all that information and order it to use it when generating the design of your vacation home in Costa Rica.
4. Now, how much does it cost to have a house in the country of Pura Vida?
As in all products, design and construction projects are not different, as there is a great variety of prices that change depending on all the parameters that we defined previously. However, we can take as a base a cost that starts from $850 per square meter without taking into account the furniture. At this point is where it is defined which spaces, elements, or materials are mandatory and which ones would be just nice to have in your project.
We give you some advice so that you invest your money and time correctly, contract formal services with professionals. By investing in formal contracting you will avoid the greater number of additional payments, rework, demolition, delays and more issues that are so commonly occur in informal construction. The planning and management process is essential to build once and well done.
5. Legal documents, contracts, construction plans and other paperwork
That no line is made without a signed contract, this is another important advice. This will help you to protect your interests and resources and that of all those involved in your wonderful project.
There are many procedures necessary to develop construction projects in Costa Rica. There is also a lot of required documentation, such as:
Property title
Cadastral plan
Land use
Water availability
Availability of electrical connection
Soil analysis
There are other documents that may be required depending on the characteristics of your vacation home project, requested by municipalities and government institutions. But do not worry, we will tell you this so that you have an idea of what the basic requirements are, we will take care of everything, and you enjoy the process and give us the approvals.
In Costa Rica, construction projects require time and money, they can be quite demanding and challenging for all agents external to the project. If you have the idea of having your vacation home in Costa Rica, it would be best to start the project now so that you will soon be enjoying your tropical vacation home in Costa Rica.
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