Casa con Ojos 1, San Miguel de Escazú, Costa Rica (Plano Astral)Inquire about availability

A colossal and unsettling gaze returns judgment from the façade of a makeshift dwelling. The structure, assembled from scraps of wood and corrugated metal and buttressed by external stairs, ceases to be a mere record of rural or suburban self-construction to become an observing organism. Beneath the eaves of the upper floor and above the adjacent roof, human eyes emerge from the chiaroscuro with frontal hyperrealism, reversing the viewer's habitual relationship with marginal architecture: we are no longer looking at the vulnerability of the neighborhood; it is the neighborhood that watches us with severity and consciousness.

The space is articulated through an intricate network of diagonals. Power lines crossing the cloud-heavy sky, the slopes of the roofs, and the railing of the staircase generate a tense, precarious rhythm, contained only by the solid shadows of the ground level. There is a rigorous precision in the recording of weathered textures: the grain of dry planks, rusted metal, and the irregular stones of the path dialogue with the anatomical neatness of the iris and eyelashes drawn across the walls.

Light does not illuminate homogeneously but shapes volumes through sharp erasures and subtle glazes of charcoal dust. In the darkest areas, the blacks achieve a tactile density that emphasizes the weight of terrestrial materials, while the satellite dish and overhead wiring seem to connect with invisible forces. In this intersection between the domestic sphere and the extrasensory realm suggested by its title, the home functions as a contemporary totem where material precarity coexists with a lucid, living, and protective spectral presence.