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Tera Adorá Eco Resort

Tera Adorá is a luxury resort shaped around the interior experience of calm, shade and comfort. Embedded in the landscape of Curaçao’s coastline, the villas, suites and hotel rooms are designed as cool, sheltered retreats, where natural materials, filtered light and seamless connections to terraces and gardens create spaces for rest, privacy and quiet luxury.

Along one of Curaçao’s most beloved beaches, SeARCH has embedded a luxury hotel, standalone suites and fifty villas into the landscape. At Tera Adorá, the architecture is deliberately understated, allowing the interior spaces to become places of calm, comfort and retreat — environments designed to support rest, privacy and a deep connection to nature.

The interiors are conceived as sanctuaries. Moving inside is a gradual transition from the brightness of the beach to shaded, cool spaces defined by natural materials, filtered light and generous proportions. Interiors are conceived as a sequence of living spaces that open toward terraces, gardens and views of the bay, dissolving the boundary between inside and outside.

Each villa is designed around this idea of interior refuge. Bedrooms are located low and nestled within the vegetation, offering cool, quiet spaces protected from sun and wind. Above, light-filled living areas open completely to the landscape, combining indoor comfort with expansive views of the ocean. Materials are tactile and restrained, supporting a relaxed atmosphere rather than visual excess.

The hotel interiors follow the same principles. Rooms are oriented for sea views and privacy, while shared interior spaces flow seamlessly into shaded terraces, gardens and pools. Circulation through the hotel is experienced as a journey through a series of atmospheres — from intimate interior spaces to open, breezy platforms overlooking the landscape — creating variation, rhythm and moments of pause.

Throughout Tera Adorá, the focus is on interiors that feel effortless and timeless: cool, shaded, calm spaces shaped by light, breeze and material rather than decoration. The ambition is simple — to create interiors that enhance the experience of this extraordinary place, without overpowering it. In short: make the interiors belong to the landscape, and above all — DFIU*.

* Don’t fuck it up!

Architect:
SeARCH
Project:
Cas Abao
Client:
Dutchen
Location:
Curaçao (CW)
Year:
2022-ongoing
Program:
Large hotel complex with 36 freestanding suites, a restaurant, bars, welness facilities, several pools and 50 luxurious villa's on the north hill.
Photography:
SeARCH