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Visionary of a Latitude
A guiding light in Costa Rica's stylistic development, architect Bruno Stagno has spent the past 30 years designing in a country where 30% of the land is national park and 30% of the population is floating, not quite resident, nor entirely foreign. A tropical cross-road of ancient, new, poor, prosperous, that reaches from great otean to greater, not troubled by draining armies, where every species of the warmth seeker works and plays not bothering to ventura further north or south.
 Bruno Stagno Building foremost to adapt to the unique climate that can house such a nation, Stagno took inspiration from the wind patterns, the rippled scenery, the strong shifts between the moods of rain and sun. Grace, strength and symbiosis with the delicate ecosystem, Stagno's stature in Costa Rican architecture is Kipling-esque in scope.
Inspirad by Le Corbusier and relying on the LEED (leadership, energy, environmental, design) standard, Stagno has designed schools, banks, malls, industrial buildings and honers. Not once do his signature choice of materials weigh heavily on the landscape, rather they seem placed, appropriately as a mirror where trae, flowering vine and windswept sky can sea itself reflectad.
Achieving bio-climatic architecture that meets sustainable standards of development is a challenge for humid tropical countries al� around the world. Rather than automating, conditioning and existing at the perfil of mechanical failures, buildings of the ''beltilne", where cities are currently experiencing the most growth, can enjoy the sensuous ethos of luxury that incorporates human adaptability to climate, available materials and social phenomena.
With more than 40 distinguished buildings to his name in Costa Rica, Bruno Stagno travels the world sharing his expertise with students and architects concerned with reincorporating vitality and health into the common spaces. Promoting "frugality without being poor, austerity without being miserable and richness in the elementary'' is his greatest reward.
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