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Designed by the Flavio Castro, who leads Brazilian practice FCstudio, for his own use, the Box House was conceived as ‘a floating opaque box’, as himself explains. view more

From the street, there is almost nothing to see. Just a wall, a gate, and the quiet suggestion that something private lies beyond. In São Paulo, where density and security shape daily life, one architect decided his own home would not compete for attention. Instead, it would withdraw, creating a calm interior world hidden from public view. 

The formal and chromatic composition brought together areas with the same use, generating four programmatic boxes, within the single space with double height ceiling. This concept can be seen in the schemes that follow this memorial. The first box consists of the entrance hall and access to the toilet. The ruby color highlights this space that works as a break between inside and outside the apartment. In front of the elevator, we exposed the couple’s collection of Dutch miniatures, so that right at the entrance, there is a connection with the family’s affective memory. The second box consists of the table that separates the kitchen from the living room, a large piece of furniture that received tensoflex as a lighting device that simulates the sunrise and sunset light, through the dimming of the LEDs. Through this warm and changeable light, we managed to change the atmosphere of the apartment’s integrated and single space.

The third box is the mezzanine that houses the office and the fourth box is the bookcase of the playroom. The materials follow the same color palette. The use of light wood tones was the artifice that brought us closer to the initial references.

The furniture was brought from the Netherlands, with some pieces developed by FCstudio, which also designed the joinery. The design of the New York Apartment translated the family’s emotional desires into interior design, at the same time considering its necessary and particular functionality.

Architects: FCstudio Location: Brooklin, Brazil Area: 178 m² Year: 2020 Photographs: Pedro Kok Manufacturers: B&B Italia, Baxter, Brokis, Cassina, Classicon, Moooi, Moroso, VitrA, Carla Chaim, Dpot Objeto, Estúdio Bola, FCstudio, Fenix Interiors, Fernando Mota, Jacqsa, Macaparana, Maria Laet, Marilia Razuk, Papel Assinado, Parket, Portobello, Raquel Arnaud, STR, Uniflex, Van Der Horst

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Flavio Castro sees your windows and does you one better. The Brazilian architect and founder of FCstudio designed himself a one-bedroom house in São Paulo where nearly all of the walls open to the outside. The aptly named Box House is a house that’s shaped like a box. But what the simply shaped home lacks in geometric grandeur it makes up for in indoor-outdoor magic.

Located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, the Box House was designed by Flavio Castro of architecture firm FCStudio, for himself to live in.

Modern two-storey personal residence designed in 2010 by FCstudio located in Guarujá, Brazil. Description by FCstudio The home consists by S squares grouped in pairs. Within this compositional rule, two subtractions have been made at reverse sides to type two venues: the storage ...