Jacó and its leap towards the future

Jacó is the closest beach to the capital San José, a fact that highlights it as a sought after destination for domestic travelers and foreigners arriving at the Santa Maria international airport. The new Costanera highway, which is in final stages of construction, will reduce the driving distance to Jacó by more than an hour. This highway will connect directly from the air-port, pass through Escazu and Santa Ana and connect to Jacó in just 45 minutes. The boost in the amount of tourists and travelers arriving at the area is estimated to double, consequently raising the demand for attractive accommodation and tourist services. The town’s proximity to other popular destinations like Manual Antonio national park, Carara national park and Turtuga Island, has already heightened Jacó as a holiday center from which various activities and excursion can be explored.

Year-round waves, prime access to breathtaking jungle wildlife and adventure tours like canopy zip-lining, ATVs and sport fishing, not to mention some of the best nightlife in the country, have quickly transformed Jacó into Costa Rica’s most popular beach vacation hotspot. This booming beach town attracts surfers, retirees, families, international tourists and real estate investors from around the world.

Keeping up with the constant growth of the town, the Jacó municipality has executed various projects to upscale the town from vast infrastructure improvements to new plans for a beautiful beachfront boulevard.

Jacó has also transformed into a cultural center for the Pacific coast, holding numerous music festivals and its exclusive annual art festival showcasing paintings, sculptures and theater performances.

In August 2009 Jacó has hosted the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games, which led an unprecedented amount of tourists both local and international to fill the town and boost the local economy.

Water is the driving force of all nature

Leonardo Da Vinci once said that “human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous”.

Keeping this idea in mind, we sought out to observe nature’s precise shape, form and beauty, from the perfect dynamics of a sea shell to the driving force of the deep blue sea.

Da Vinci shared our conclusion: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”.

And so we aspired to capture the pure essence of the ocean, its vibrant shapes, calming allure and flowing nature; to create a building in which nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.