It’s impossible to deny that we are linked to water, an element without which there is no life. The mythical Arab garden, in which the scarcity of water leads to create sophisticated compositions, the abundance of the liquid in the Italian Renaissance, originated a blossoming of fountains and cascades. The English created the romantic garden by designing the landscape with water as the focal point. For the Orientals, water represents not only the fountain of life but also the oasis to soothe the spirits and because of it, their gardens are always planned around it.
In the contemporary world and in a country where we are surrounded by water, two oceans, Gatun Lake and multiple rivers, it is impossible for an architect to erase this element from his work portfolio. Sooner or later he will meet the challenge of doing a project in which the owner of a plot of land wants to integrate the landscape surrounded by water to his home.
A cliff, the sea at the bottom, a calm landscape, a deep land... Architecture destined to materialize the new country house should reflect before all what its owners perceived initially when they first saw the place: peace and serenity. Sheltering the guests in one unit and the owners in another one, allowing all of them to get calm in the generous land, was part of the conditions to design this group of elements. The view of the sea should be used and at the same time linked to the water element. That is where the idea originates to create this pool of uncommon proportions which begins narrow and continues through the land to open up when nearing the sea, strengthening the composition of the elements and establishing a link between the units and nature. |
)
)
