Box House by Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato

Box House by Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato in Ilhabela, Sao Paulo, Brazil:
This small house carry simple program with stone walls and clay roof tiles. Built in 2 floors, a white suspended box, where the bedroom is and it is possible to see the continent and the São Sebastião Channel. Under it, at street level, are the living room, kitchen and bathroom.

stone concrete house by Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato

The wood used on some doors and windows, staircase, shelves and furniture are leftovers of material used to make scaffoldings and molds for the white box reinforced concrete structure. The 3.00 m x 5.00 m white box is supported on one side by an existing retaining wall and on the other by a wall built with stones, a characteristic of local constructions.

simple house design by Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato

This movement shapes the other 3 spaces of the construction, the access yard, between the box and the retaining wall that curves following the parking lot ramp’s floor, the courtyard, between the box and the rock and the void created under the box, where the living room is. The impact caused by the image of concise volume, in comparison with the large rock’s amorphous exuberance, gives it a strange sensation.