One Mans Off Grid Dream Home in Costa Rica - A Short Film
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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.
If you would like to stay at this house while visiting Costa Rica, reach out the owner at studioxyzdnainc@gmail.com
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This home gave me such feelings of pure calm and freedom. This is how we should be living.
Its hard to believe, looking at my place, that we live on the same planet. That was Magic!
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.
🕉💪I'm 22 and am doing this asap love this
this IS LIVING...Beyond breathtaking
Just WoW…encouraging Thanks for sharing your self made paradise!
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.
Paradise!!
Beautiful place surrounded by pure Nature! Family And the dog partner is a peace gift! Greetings from Nicaragua 🇳🇮
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
What a beautiful story! Congratulations making your dream come true ❤❤
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' 🏝️
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.
@hoon_sol
7 ай бұрын
He doesn't sound tired or dreary at all. He just sounds relaxed and at peace. Maybe you just don't understand the difference because you think the anxious and neurotic people of "civilization" are what humans are supposed to be like.
@mylesanthony8672
7 ай бұрын
lol that's an interesting observation, I think you could be right@@hoon_sol
@erinosborn5954
4 ай бұрын
@@mylesanthony8672what a lovely way to respond to what might be read as a slightly confrontational comment. …With gentleness and openness and reflective wondering. Bless you. 🙏🏽✨❤️
@mylesanthony8672
4 ай бұрын
Hahahah a valid observation, I think you can say almost anything without offense if youre aware it's about the way you say it@@erinosborn5954
Great outcome to break away from the system and live your life the way it should be free. I’m coming down to see if Costa Rica is for me since I want out of Canada.
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.
Love.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great story, great dream realised! Congrats! ♥🙏
Beautiful
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.
@fakename5405
5 ай бұрын
Wow that's awesome. How's it going??
@HistoricMetals
5 ай бұрын
@@fakename5405 really well thanks. I've already been in Costa Rica for a month and everything is going great.
So loved your video dear Nils. Its wonderful and such hard work all coming together. A beautiful home and a wonderful dream come true. Wishing you every joy and hope to visit when I get back 😘🙏
@Brent-wb3tk
4 ай бұрын
🙏🩵🤳
Loved this & can totally relate ❤
Yaaaaaassss Brother!! What great cinematography! Beautiful! I can see you are dreaming..Thank you!
@CarlRayJohnson
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks bro, glad you enjoyed! Much love!
Beautiful place!
So beautiful am green with envy!
This is absolutely breathtaking ❤
Love this ❤
Saludos desde San Ramón de Alajuela costa Rica,que bueno que lo lograste,Dios te bendiga🙋🇨🇷
Amazing ... Beautiful
Pure Inspiration!
You really are a inspiration
absoutely gorgeous.
Amazing place! I love how the spaces especially the outdoor areas are designed to welcome people and enjoy with friends (the bar, the ciné…) Awesome video! Salut from Jacó
Beautiful inspiration... i dream of this kind of simplicity.
🎼i feel the joy down in my heart💚
Truly inspirational
You’re living the dream 😍
The mosquitos ruin every illusion of paradise, sad but true.
@Brent-wb3tk
4 ай бұрын
zzz
@enough1494
3 ай бұрын
Really? Hum……for some, yes. In reality for some, too. I live wide open like he does, truly a delight and seasonal annoyances, but paradise for 80% of the time. Now when I am in NOLA, other things ruin my illusion of the good ol days! Everything in life is perception and perspective, I prefer the price of paradise…to the sublime American Dream. Hugs from Lares, PR
@ricknico2577
3 ай бұрын
@@enough1494 there is always a snake in every paradise. Hugging you back from my jungle garden in the Bolivian Amazon.
@enough1494
3 ай бұрын
@@ricknico2577 Bolivia! Preciosa!
@MJibco
3 ай бұрын
Experienced that as well. Bugs bugs bugs…😣
amazing! this is just art! so cool! what an epic home!
It's a BEAUTIFUL ECO PARADISE WITH GROOVY MUSIC 😎
I love this!!
BEAUTIFUL PURA VIDA VIDEO,
What a great story. Congratulations.
Fantastic vid!
What about poisonous snakes, spiders and scorpions? This house is completely open to these potentially dangerous creatures.
points for creativity!
Beautiful, congrats!
- Congrats for the Beautifull acomplisment!
Living their best life 🎉❤
Carl Ray Johnson is like Carly ray Jepson! thanks for this nice video!
dreamlike. unreal. well done
love it
Wow 👏that’s amazing!
Well done video Carl. I love the music near the end. Makes me miss Domi
Big ups this was so awesome I could of kept watching ❤what a dream house
This is the good good life
Great success 👊🏼
Real Tarzan 👍👍👍
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
Great.thank for sharing.just starting filming.
@CarlRayJohnson
2 жыл бұрын
Good for you, what type of things are you filming?
Very nice man... I watched the whole thing. Lots of nice drone and gimbal shots... i woulda been super nervous flying through the trees like that haha.
@CarlRayJohnson
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, yea there were a lot of close proximity flying shots. I hit a tree at one point but ended up being ok.
It seems like you found paradise
Great video love watching people living off the grid from the comfort of my sofa with a Starbucks coffee 😂
well done
Cool video! Best of luck Carl Ray
Hello, beyond beautiful ❤ from Atlanta Ga ❤
✌️👊🙏🏼🇨🇷from Heredia
👌
WOW my dream
Im spellbound. Its a dream
Like,good👍🤝🙏
I wish I was there 😊
This is my dream to build my house like this
The mosquitos 🦟 and the big cats! What do you do about jaguars? Looks too open if you leave food out arent you concerned about big cats?
People never talk about the quantity of insects in places like that particularly ants..sometimes millions of army ants come through a house..literally millions.
@acinamatata6342
2 ай бұрын
Yes i wish they did talk about the downs. I'm so scared it's gonna be full of ants, mosquitos, tickd, spiders
@donTeo136
2 ай бұрын
@@acinamatata6342 tripocal forests are full of insects,,,lots of spiders, lots of ants,,super abandance of ants..dpending on mosquitos...which is why the natives make clearings
@acinamatata6342
2 ай бұрын
@@donTeo136 clearings?
@tedwrigley2768
2 ай бұрын
Yes, well in the tropical mountains people usually live on ridge tops, most trees get cleared. There more mosquito s the lower U go towards the creeks. Of course a little breeze there as well. Planting fruit trees right.. and a vista. This can make water a problem. Water by gravity. Roof water is great but what do do if U have a week without rain? In the Amazon flat lands they'd live right next to rivers on stilts. This will depend of course, but insects and wind are considerations. If u can stand spiders consider changing plans. Snakes are not a issue.
Dig it. Me and family are working out way down there.
@radfem28
Жыл бұрын
Don't
@tubbyrainbow111
Жыл бұрын
@@radfem28 Why do you say that?
@marjory62
Жыл бұрын
Gentrification
@Indomita506
6 ай бұрын
@@tubbyrainbow111it's not that easy. It's not that safe. And it's not that affordable
@dg-qn5mi
Ай бұрын
Don't listen to the naysayers- DO IT - take the risk
My kids spent 6 weeks in Costa Rica years ago. I checked out the government website, and it states that squatters have 17 years to live on your property, or in your home if they move in. Wild right? that is a long long time. Then this sad fact was confirmed by a coworker (I’m in FL), who said her partner is Costa Rican and he lost his Costa Rican property to squatters bc of this law. So indeed, it’s def true.
❤🌟✌️
XXLnt !
This is beautiful how much did this cost?
Very inspiring as I’m planning something similar on my lot. Ive loved the idea of building with bamboo but I’m unsure of how it’ll hold up in the central pacific zone. I’d love to connect and talk about your build if you are willing and able. Pura vida mae
@Rick-gy8fz
5 ай бұрын
No response from the guy, that's b.s.
@acinamatata6342
2 ай бұрын
I'd love to connect over this topic though. Sharing that dream too
How did you find a property like this?
Beautiful job! I want one in CR also. Any good land connections?
@Indomita506
6 ай бұрын
It's not that easy
I know an Island They provide all amenities real cheap as hell You can even live there with little to no cost.
The dream! Congratulations ❤ thanks for sharing it on film.
Any chance of some plans and sections?
Do you have a mosquito problem? Or how did you handle it?
Pulling a curtain on your shower in the jungle🤣.
ITS ALL STAGED
Eu ouvi falar que a Costa Rica está com problemas de insegurança e desisti de ir á Costa Rica. Gostava de ver um video que falasse com transparencia e honestidade sobre o que pode se tornar perigoso quando vamos à Costa Rica. O que devemos fazer para tudo correr bem na viagem á costa rica?
Brah unreal 😎🤙 10 Star ✨ off grid ALOHA 🌺
Beautiful place if i lived there i would be naked half the time like iam now Bill skinnertt is a friend of mine in costa rico do u know him or heard of him he could be dead but last known home was in costa rica
what about mosquitos ?
show
What part of cr is this?
@tigertastic862
Жыл бұрын
It's a secret
@marjory62
Жыл бұрын
Lol
US planning and zoning has entered the chat. This is impressive, but I think a ton of people in USA would build something like this. except its illegal to build this in usa.
Nice , what`s the closest town or city to your home ?
Mosquitoes not an issue....
We all have our own purpose but we are sucked into this rat race and don't think about our why that much why where here why where doing the things we do. Peace to my secret searchers
That Chica looks amazing! Haha
I've been to Costa Rica. It is a little cheaper then the usa but more expensive then most places. I like the wildlife in Costa Rica but the beaches are not that pretty. Looking to find land in Hawaii it's much nicer
@Indomita506
6 ай бұрын
lol Hawaii is more expensive. And I don't think you visit the right beaches