Designed by Gabriel Grinspum + Mariana Simas this small river side house just need 60 sqm area to built. Its a pier house owned by young couple from Sao Paolo, Brazil. The house was built for a sailboat during the week and its owner during the weekends. The client want to create a small house that was divide in two volumes. The first one is a solid box covered with whitewash, and its “muxarabi” windows filter the light and allow permanent ventilation. he second one was constructed with metal tile and pre-fabricated wood structure. In this context, the house is pier together the idea of the “noble savage” with modern “eulogy of the machine”. Like a sailboat, poetic symbol of harmony between nature and human condition and, currently, subject of an ultra-sophisticated and green design, the pier house is the house of the “natural man” that makes use of sustainable benefits of technological advance. Look out the site plan/floorplan for more detail about the house design. Photographs: Pedro Vannucchi

via:archdaily