Architecture, construction and site supervision in Samaná. Arq. Pablo R. Castillo has been building on this peninsula since 1992, and laying out the ground under it since before that.
Three years running the job for Remarkable Places: excavation into rock, the structure, and the trades, on a slope with no road to it when the work started. The renders are the design. The concrete is what Pablo put there.
Four volumes stepped down a hillside so every room keeps the view and none takes the afternoon sun square on.
A house on a rock shelf above the water, terraces cantilevered past the retaining wall.
Fifteen years on it stands exactly as drawn, which on this coast is the only review that counts.
Three floors of poured frame standing on a dry stone wall built to hold the hillside behind it.
Five floors on the seafront, every balcony turned a few degrees off the façade to catch the bay.
Bungalows and a pool terrace on a slope down to the sand, run end to end as general manager.
Líneas y Puntos is registered with the Cámara de Comercio de Samaná to design, build, supervise and direct civil works. That is four licences most practices only hold one of, and it is why the same name appears on the drawing and on the delivery note for the concrete.
Liceo Demorizi, then the Liceo José Gabriel García, both in Santa Bárbara. He left for Santiago to train as an agronomist, came back, then went to Santo Domingo and read architecture at the UASD until 1992.
Between 1999 and 2000 he ran the provincial planning office for Samaná, which is the desk that decides what gets built on this peninsula and what does not. In 2020 the Ministry of Housing put him in charge of the northwest region for Dominicana se Reconstruye.
Three years at the Instituto Superior de Agricultura before he drew a single building. Half of what goes wrong with a house in Samaná is the ground underneath it: where the water runs in October, which slope holds and which one moves, what the roots of a mature almendro do to a foundation in twenty years. He reads a site as land before he reads it as a plot.
Pablo was cutting the first roads into Loma de La Piña in 2001, twenty years before any of them looked at this bay. There is a version of a Samaná architect who arrived with the money. This is the other one.
Shown as evidence of where the market is going. These are not clients of Líneas y Puntos, and no association is claimed. All marks belong to their owners.
Survey, anteproyecto, full drawings, and the permit file for the ayuntamiento and Medio Ambiente.
Our own crews and our own equipment, priced by the item so you can see what each part costs.
If you already have a builder, we hold them to the drawings and the schedule, and we report to you, not to them.
The whole thing run for you while you are not in the country, which is how Villa Oshana and Rincón Retreat were built.
We design and we also build, and those two are usually kept apart for a good reason: the person checking the work should not be the person who did it. If that matters to you, hire us for one and someone else for the other, and we will say so on the first call. What you get by keeping them together is that when the concrete arrives wrong on a Tuesday in Las Galeras,
one person owns it.