K10 Studio is an architecture firm based in Costa Rica, founded by Costa Rican architect Andrés Kaune Schmidt, who previously led projects in Costa Rica and Germany. It offers architecture, masterplanning and interior design for private villas, hospitality and mixed-use projects. Its current work is on the Pacific coast, in Nosara, Santa Teresa, Playa Avellanas, Hacienda Pinilla, Tamarindo, Papagayo and Zapotal.
An approach to architecture.
The studio combines climate-responsive design, natural materials and continuous indoor and outdoor space with attention to buildability and budget, drawing on its founder's background in a family of engineers and builders.
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A residence in Tamarindo that the studio presents as a home organized around air, earth and water. Photographs on the project page show board-formed concrete walls, timber-lined overhanging roofs and vertical wood screens among dry forest trees.