a14 Interior view of the main building at Montavia Estate in the mountains of Southern Costa Rica.
We are in the great room/conservatory looking North toward a primary wall that divides the house. On a boat such a wall would be called the Main Bulkhead, denoting that it encompasses many essential functions. We planned this room as a quick-change activity space, combining the best of an old fashioned farm kitchen with Sunset magazine's experimental cooking center.