This house designed by Javier Corvalán for a film-maker locates in the countryside outside capital city of Paraguay- Asunción. The project of Casa Obscura, named also the house without windows, is a project of material and immaterial technology at the same time, in some way it is an antithesis of many known definitions of architecture, as the idea is made by absence of light.
The box above is composed of galvanized sheet metal on the outside, framed around a cage of iron bars. It is set on a pivot point that balances its weight carefully, making it easy to lift from the pully crank located on one end. The house is made in two parts, on one side there is an habitable basement made in stone and earth, and on the other side there is a metallic box which is leaning above the basement. The basement is made by rough stone walls which is coming from a quarry 10 km far away from the site, this system builds also the stairs and it is the base of a big lightweight slab made by concrete beams and ceramic. [architect: laboritorio de arquitectura photographer: pedro kok via: archdaily]
