Cube House in Brazil by AR Arquitetos

The owners wanted a large house, spacious and well lit in a small plot of 92 m2 wedged between buildings. But John Paul Rosenberg AR Arquitetos and Achaia Marina accepted the challenge and succeeded to a great solution to the young couple would live in Cube House, a new home in the neighborhood of Pompeia, São Paulo.

A solar façade of 6.6 m wide and 14 m deep, wedged between tall buildings in a narrow street of only 2.6 m. With this difficult starting point, the owners requested a 3 bedroom house where they could live with their future children, a kitchen was the center of the house and be integrated with the living room, an office with a library where they work, a guest bedroom and some outer space done in a way that does not take away privacy. Surely a program somewhat contradictory.
The first idea was to close the house to the street and opened into the sun. It was structured volume of housing in the form of two overlapping cubes created and two interior courtyards. At the base of the building was kept a basement of the old building and demolished, and there was installed the office to work and study. This space included a large library and a full bathroom that could be used occasionally as a guest room. Now, the street light illuminated the room almost overhead, and the sky can be seen from the desktop.

On the basement overlapped two buckets, one 6 x 6 x 6 m located in the center of the site and discovered another 3 x 3 x 3 m, which supplemented the volume of the house. With this structure, the house was closed to the outside and two interior courtyards were opened, one in front and behind, reaching the maximum permitted use of the site at which time it managed to preserve the privacy for nearby residents.

In short, the architects have succeeded in a big house home Cube in a small plot where the main hub welcomes the social spaces of the house, they do not interfere with the more intimate or work. The smaller volume includes service spaces, as garage, storage space or laundry tub, in addition to the garden that extends to the room.