Sao Chico Mountain House

This house is a shelter for the weekends, designed by Studio Paralelo, located in São Francisco de Paula, mountain region of Rio Grande do Sul, 100 km away from Porto Alegre.

Two rectangular boxes of different textures intercepted. The bigger one, covered with metallic wavy tile, shelter the intimate sector with two bedroom suits in opposite sides. The second box, in wood and more transparent, crosses the metallic pavilion configuring the social and service sector. Only in the wood box the interior cover is the same of the exterior. Complementing the structure, a concrete block box, half-embedded, retreat in relation to the base, conforms the foundations sheltering in the biggest unevenness a small deposit. via archdaily