About
Nestled in Playa Grande, Studio Alto is Home for Creatives & Nature Intelligence.
This is an invitation to regenerate our relationship with ourselves, with others and with our environment.
Mission
Transform our role into that of deliberate caretakers, designing a healthy, symbiotic future guided by Nature's wisdom.
Our Story
Decades later after working in a fast-paced creative factory producing art within the box, the need to slow down came. Covid hit. Costa Rica healed. Studio Alto emerged.
Who cares for the artists, the creators, the makers, the researchers — the ones who design and make the world of tomorrow? Are creatives and artists just becoming commodities?
Studio Alto is a home. Your immersive destination to reconnect creative practice with nature, technology, land wisdom, and lived experience.
Nathalie Yaba Salazar-Martin
Creative & Artistic Director, Space Creative Designer, Futurist.
Born in Ivory Coast, Raised in France,, from an andalusian-spanish heritage
After years working in large-scale cultural production, experiential design, and international creative projects, she studied permaculture and founded Studio Alto as a response to our own disconnection — Nathalie brought system-thinking, regenerative design and nature intelligence into her practice for a more inclusive ecosystem.
Studio Alto is both a home and an ongoing research. It is a space of belonging where she wants community to come together — with themselves, with the land, and with others.
What People Are Saying
“We feel extremely comfortable and shed a few tears of joy this morning. It is so beautiful and so soothing, and we are infinitely happy and grateful to you from the bottom of our hearts.”
— Former Customer
“The sense of ‘time-freedom’ I experienced there. The little pool felt like a well of magic potion. Seemed like conversation flowed effortlessly. I felt more creatively motivated to work or develop my ideas. It felt unrushed yet more productive than usual.”
— Dré Labre, AI specialist, Director of Future Creative
“Absolutely a wonderful and unique place. A perfect way to integrate with the natural surroundings off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.”
— Former Customer