Casa Kaiyo, Patio View

Project Name: Kaiyo | Location: San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

Completed: 2022 | Size of project: 200m2/2,150sqft


Casa Kaiyo in Playa Maderas strips everything down to the essential qualities of modern minimalism architecture. Designed on a narrow, steep hill, this house was created with levels to communicate the spaces inside in a refined way. The main feature is that the staircase is open inside of the house without closing the house off, utilizing and connecting space in the natural form and shape of the structure. With a modest front facade, you are not able to see how big the house is from the road, keeping subtlety and privacy. Each level provides an essential sense of area distribution that keeps the scale of the natural terrain.