One Mans Off Grid Dream Home in Costa Rica - A Short Film

This is a short film I did for a client for him to submit to an architectural contest. This was his dream home he built in the jungle of Costa Rica built with shipping containers, bamboo, and other sustainable materials. It is ran by solar and hydro power and has incredible ocean and jungle views. This house is what you dream of living in when you where a kid. Think the lost boys in the movie Hook or Swiss Family Robinson. This was a really amazing project to work on and help create an immersive experience of what it's like to be in this space and what it means to the creator. These are the types of client projects I absolutely love and I really enjoy working with other artist's with their own set of creative ideas. This was truly a collaborative project.

[Lucy-ieqw]

This home gave me such feelings of pure calm and freedom. This is how we should be living.

[annearsenault]

Its hard to believe, looking at my place, that we live on the same planet. That was Magic!

[thepathofplayfulness]

This made me emotional to watch and it speaks home. My parents raised me in a house they dreamed up themselves, my father designed it and went to work.

He always says he lives in his sculpture.

Your house, the dream you materialized, speaks to me a lot and I thank you for sharing it with us.

I know one day I will do the same, I always felt it in my heart that I would build an unconventional house one day, in connection with Nature, as we are meant to live.

[melissamcgivney]

Wow, what a dream! Thanks for sharing

[solartime]

MAGNIFICENT 🌻🌅 Impressive harmony with jungle ...but interior protection (Containers for tropical storms). Neat container lappool with camera dive segment !🏊
Bugs can mostly be controlled by natural means (bat houses, plants than repeal, etc. & mosquito nets we see🧐 Great music, filming & Thanks for sharing your private secluded 'Hut+house' 🏝️

[enough]

Just WoW…encouraging Thanks for sharing your self made paradise!

[Brahman]

🕉💪I'm 22 and am doing this asap love this

[IAMinfiniteandfree.]

Wow, you did it! Amazing job. I wish you all the joy, peace and luck in the world! I love the nature and the home, you built from scratch. Very impressive.

[reginafromrio]

What a beautiful story! Congratulations making your dream come true ❤❤

[mylesanthony]

Yeah this is insane, I think you sound tired and dreary yet your soul comes through in your art/building. One does become this way after a life of service. Awesome to see you taking it all into your own hands now and creating something undeniable to anyone, unique and distinctly beautiful. These videos are nice because you enjoy the fuits of labour not seen. I'm sure this was a challenge.

[alvintercero]

Beautiful place surrounded by pure Nature! Family And the dog partner is a peace gift! Greetings from Nicaragua 🇳🇮

[HistoricMetals]

Well done, I have just completed my land deal, but Im also bringing a 40 foot RV bus from a local ex-pat friend who just finished using it while finishing their own house on the same road as my land. (next door in fact), so I embark on my minature version of this as a 55 year old single man, in January, when my lease ends here in the states and I'm done with the next 6 weeks of final preparations to embark on the journey to my little home on the side of volcano Miravelles, in Bijagua de Upala. Your video was inspiring, and aspirational, to say the very least.

[SteveDinnes]

Great story, great dream realised! Congrats! ♥🙏

[puravida]

Awesome! I have lived near the beach in Guanacaste for 13 years. I can enjoy both the beach, and drive a short distance to the Central Valley.

[jeremyashimine]

Brother!! What great cinematography! Beautiful! I can see you are dreaming..Thank you!

[Dimitri.Schepens]

amazing! this is just art! so cool! what an epic home!

[brunodunshee]

- Congrats for the Beautifull acomplisment!

[fabinhodri]

That was beautiful, my man! Shot-out from Brasil.

[bobbiecannon]

Big ups this was so awesome I could of kept watching ❤what a dream house

[sheanfarias]

Love the video, the voice of the Arch. and his narrative of his background and life choices/decisions to partake in in the journey of having a dream home, the shots done by Carl to immerse the viewer in this magical home and it's surrounding.
Would like the credits of music/soundtrack chosen for the video