Praia do Rosa, Santa Catarina · Brazil
Casa Rosa
An eco-luxe retreat on the hills above the bay.
A natural-material house on the green morros above the crescent bay of Praia do Rosa, whales offshore in season and a footpath down to the sand. Small, quiet, and built for one clear stretch of deep focus at a time.
Praia do Rosa is a crescent bay under two kilometres long on the south coast of Santa Catarina, held between green morros and the sea. The hills kept their Atlantic Forest, the village was built into them rather than over them, and footpaths drop through the trees to the sand.
This is whale country. From June to November, southern right whales come to calve inside a marine reserve of over a hundred and fifty thousand hectares, close enough to watch from the hillside and sometimes within two hundred metres of the beach. The surf runs long and mellow on the north side and faster on the south, and behind the bay the Lagoa de Ibiraquera opens to the sea.
- Bay-view deck
- Outdoor bath
- Whale season, June to November
Santa Catarina, up close.
Why people create here.
Praia do Rosa grew from a village of surfers and hippies into something quieter and more considered, luxury measured in views and forest rather than marble. Florianópolis and its technology scene lie ninety kilometres north, about ninety minutes up the coast road. Capital in Floripa, craft in Rosa. Come for one clear stretch of deep focus at a time, not a permanent desk.
It is humid and subtropical, warm and busy in the southern summer and genuinely quiet from June to September, which is also the whale season. April is the driest month, but rain falls lightly all year and the forest stays green.
A few frames from the house and its landscape.
The vision at Casa Rosa.
Casa Rosa is a concept grounded in a real place. It shows the kind of home we want to bring into the collection, and it is not an active listing.
Concept home