Selected Projects

A selection of built and conceptual projects exploring regenerative land design across different contexts, scales, and constraints.

Together, they reflect an approach that integrates architecture, landscape regeneration, and long-term value creation — from fully constructed estates to the considered decision not to build.

Project Vision

A regenerative eco-estate conceived as a small inhabitable hamlet, integrating architecture, landscape regeneration, and operational living systems.

Site & Landscape Context

Main Residence

At its core sits a 450 m² main residence, where a concrete structural frame meets adobe walls in a dialogue between brutalist scale and vernacular intelligence. The proportions are generous: 4.5-metre ceilings, expansive openings, and full-height glass doors that dissolve the boundary between interior and landscape.

The Great Room

The main living space is conceived as a single continuous volume — kitchen, dining, and living area — opening onto an L-shaped terrace that wraps around the house. It is both monumental and deeply inhabitable: a space designed for gathering, cooking, long conversations, and the quiet rhythm of daily life.

Craftsmanship & Interior Design

A bespoke staircase, crafted from albariquoque — a rare pink-toned hardwood — anchors the interior. Throughout the house, carpentry, furniture, lighting, and textiles were either designed specifically for the project or sourced for it, combining local craftsmanship with a precise architectural language.

Earth & Bamboo Cottage

The two secondary structures explore lighter, more experimental construction systems. One, a two-bedroom cottage built in wattle and daub (bajareque), was first structured entirely in bamboo before being filled with earth — an exercise in vernacular technique, material experimentation, and structural intuition. The second, a smaller bamboo casita, was conceived as a more radical exploration: a structure built almost entirely from bamboo, including fixtures, lighting, and detailing.

Outdoor Living & Temazcal

Land Regeneration

Sensory Landscape Design

From Private Estate to Retreat

The Challenge

Reading the Land

Architecture & Adaptation

Architecture followed necessity, but with intention. Simple wooden cabins were paired with experimental semi-open bathrooms carved into the mountain, using earthbag construction and natural retaining walls. A yoga shala built into an existing excavation in the hillside became one of the most significant practice spaces in the region.

Economics of Regeneration

The project was developed with an initial investment of approximately $30,000, expanded organically through its own revenue, and ultimately sold for $650,000. It continues to operate today — still using the original spatial design, operational systems, and experiential framework developed at inception.

The Site

Water Infrastructure

Water infrastructure was established by pumping from the lake into tanks positioned along the upper elevations, enabling gravity-fed distribution across the site. Soil regeneration began immediately through planting and composting systems. Firebreaks were created in collaboration with neighbouring plots, enabling long-term reforestation.

Operational Transformation

Legacy & Principles

The Vision

A 44-hectare strategic model for structuring regenerative land developments that combine private ownership, shared ecological systems, and long-term coherence.

Ownership Model

Rather than dividing land into isolated parcels, the project proposes a coordinated system where individual ownership coexists with a shared ecological and operational framework. Each residence maintains privacy and autonomy. A significant portion of the property is preserved and managed as a continuous landscape — allowing for forest regeneration, biodiversity, and spatial coherence at a scale that fragmented plots cannot achieve.

Ecological Framework

Regenerative Landscapes

The TARA Framework

Boske

Stewardship Through Inhabitation — Costa Rica (Ongoing)

A three-hectare forest held with deliberate restraint.

The land was originally a cacao plantation, later abandoned and left to regenerate over decades. Today, much of it functions as a dense, layered ecosystem approaching primary forest conditions.

Intervention has been minimal and intentional. A network of paths was opened by hand, allowing the land to be inhabited without disrupting its structure. In already-altered areas, selective planting introduced fruit systems and productive species. An existing structure was dismantled and rebuilt using reclaimed hardwoods — a dwelling embedded within the landscape rather than placed upon it.

The project remains intentionally unresolved. Not as hesitation, but as position. In environments where ecological systems are active and complex, observation precedes intervention. And sometimes the most intelligent form of design is to wait.

Increasingly, the greatest luxury I can imagine is this: to be held by a living forest, inhabited by animals that have found refuge as the surrounding landscapes are gradually lost.

Purchased at $9 per square metre in 2020. Current value: over $120 per square metre. Not for sale.

The Seed

Isla Verde

Tara

Boske