Five luxury pools and the decision that defines each one

“Luxury pool” gets used for almost anything. For us it means something specific: a pool where the shape, the finish, the lighting and the edge were solved before excavating, because afterwards they can't be changed. These five projects are ours, and each one teaches a different decision.

1. Villa Real: you see the water from the side

In Santa Ana, on a terrace with a view, this pool has a glass front. It is tempered, laminated glass, structurally calculated to hold the water with no visible frames. The water stops being a surface and becomes a volume: you see it from the side, with light passing through. Glass-wall pools are our specialty.

2. Punta Leona: one shell for three uses

In 45 m² of irregular shape, this pool solves spa, swimming area and sun shelf inside the same shell, with no separate tanks. The finish is Sukabumi stone, the green volcanic stone that gives the water a deep tone that shifts with daylight. At night, coloured LED lighting makes it a different pool.

3. Project 2026: light and moving water

Here the pool was designed with the night in mind. Three waterfalls drop from a side wall, there is light under the water and along the path of stepping slabs, and the spa sits raised within the same composition. Inside the water, on a shallow shelf, are two loungers: you sunbathe with the water a few centimetres away.

4. Don Édgar: the spa is part of the shape

In Heredia, the spa is not a separate tank: it is a raised circle joined to the pool, with the same coping and the same finish. The freeform shell receives it, and the whole reads as one piece of work. That is what we mean by a built-in spa.

5. Courtyard pool: luxury in a small space

The smallest of the five. In the courtyard of a house, a rectangle with a bench under the water, light coping and a green-toned finish. Here luxury is not what was added but what was solved: nothing is left over. We tell it decision by decision in A pool in a small backyard.

What they share and the photos don't show

• The structure. Reinforced concrete with structural calculations. Costa Rica is a seismic zone, and what prevents cracks is decided before the pour.
• The operation. Variable-speed pumps, LED lighting and control from your phone. At the Barva project, for example, the build included automation.
• The price. Fixed and in writing before work starts, after a site visit that is free of charge.

How we work this line from start to finish is in luxury pools in Costa Rica.