User:Timaraibambooresort

Timarai Bamboo Resort is the biggest development project made out of Bamboo (Guadua Angustifolia). Located at Playa Palo Seco, Parrita, Puntarenas province, Costa Rica, Central America. Timarai used 120 lineal miles of bamboo, which makes it by far the biggest bamboo development worldwide. It's construction started in July 2002 and finished in December 2005, time at which was priced with the Rene Frank Costa Rica'n architectural national contest first price. The architects were Rosa Esperanza Gallego Sossa and Gonzalo Bueno, and the ingeneers were Alejandro Restrepo and Jose Carlos Lechuguín.

Aside of it's bamboo structure, Timarai Bamboo Resort particular characteristic is that the walls and roofs are made out of adobe, which made that this project used 95% of it's materials totally of a natural procedence. Concrete was only 3% of it's total used materials, other materials has been coconut fiber and palm tree leafs.

Nowadays Timarai Bamboo Resort is a eco boutique hotel, with a relax philosophy inspired by it's natural elements both in their construction as well as in it's natural surroundings. With the ocean in front and the Palo Seco- Damas mangrove at the back makes it's location a very interesting location for naturists, bird watchers as well as family and guets that scapes from the crowds.

Some of the newspapers and magazines articles written about Timarai Bamboo Resort can be found at:

- La Nación, Costa Rica 2005. Title: "Bambu sobre mas bambú" http://www.nacion.com/ambitos/2005/diciembre/03/nota4.html - El Mundo, Spain. Title: "El mundo de los árboles" http://www.elmundo.es/suplementos/viajes/2005/43/1120664737.html - El Financiero, Costa Rica: Title: "Innovación" http://www.elfinancierocr.com/accesolibre/2006/marzo/05/Innovacion.pdf - La Nacion, Tiempo Libre, Costa Rica. Title: "Aventura y playa" http://www.nacion.com/tiempolibre/2005/septiembre/09/airelibre.html

- Latitud 2000, Argentina: Title: "Costa Rica, actividades deportivas" http://latitud2000.com.ar/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11994&Itemid=41