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A Pavilion-Style Studio Home that Welcomes Guests

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A gabion stone wall forms the central support for this compact studio home.

Ana Paula Barros designed Loft Bauhaus, sited  in Brazil.

While it is neither a loft, nor particularly Bauhaus, the small studio is an extremely well designed and compact home for a single person or a couple – that also comfortably houses six or seven dinner guests.

By contrast with the earthiness of the textural solidity of the stone wall at the heart of the home, the exterior wall is simply glazing from ceiling to floor.

So the effect is that of a pavilion, utterly open on all sides.

The public half of the house comprises a living room and dining room displayed in front of the stone wall.

Huge industrial lamps hang over the dining table which comfortably seats eight.

Behind the central gabion stone wall at the dining end is the kitchen.

A similar opening at the other end of the gabion wall accesses the bedroom and bathroom.

While the house is intended for a single occupant – or a couple, the entertaining front area is well designed to accommodate eight.

And this is done comfortably and graciously despite the compact space.

But one flaw is that guests can only access the toilet (behind the white sliding doors) by traveling deep into the client’s private bedroom, past the sunken bath with its sliding glass wall to the private garden.

Other than this – which maybe is of no consequence to the client – the house is a very sweet small house, with its inspiration the famous Farnsworth House of Mies Van der Rohe.