Entry & Arrival
A concrete gantry frames the name overhead; guests park in the forest clearing beyond and walk in under the entry canopy
A board-formed concrete gateway announces the arrival, but the real drama is behind it — a lobby built around a circular fountain, an open-air restaurant looking straight out at a waterfall, and guest suites with their own rooftop terraces and hot tubs tucked into the rainforest canopy. The whole complex is cantilevered off a hillside, its angular concrete underside visible from below like a piece of the terrain itself.
Rainforest Inn announces itself with a board-formed concrete gateway before the building is even visible — guests park in a forest clearing and walk in on foot, the name framed overhead against the canopy. That sense of arrival carries straight through to the lobby, where a circular stone fountain becomes the organizing feature of the whole ground floor: reception, lounge seating, and a formal bar all open directly onto it, the angular concrete walls sliced open at odd angles to frame views of the surrounding rainforest and, from the bar, a waterfall dropping straight down the hillside beyond.
The restaurant carries the same double-height, angular-concrete language, white-clothed tables set under a soaring canopy with glazing on every side so the dining room never fully separates from the forest around it — one dining room looks out at green canopy alone, another catches a full waterfall plunging down through the trees just past the glass. Structurally, the whole inn is cantilevered off a hillside — seen from below, its underside reads almost like an outcropping of rock rather than a building, banana plants and ferns growing right up to the concrete undercroft. Guest suites keep that same drama at a personal scale: sliding glass walls open onto private terraces, each with its own hot tub, some looking out over the treetops and at least one suite catching a pair of waterfalls just beyond the rail.