Atelier Marko Brajovic designed Monkey House, a wooden cabin on stilts set among the trees of Paraty, Brazil, as a retreat for the architect's friends during the pandemic.
When coronavirus broke out, Marko Brajovic took his wife, two children and dogs to live in ARCA, a house he designed in the Brazilian part of the Atlantic Forest. He built the Monkey House cabin in its grounds as a guest house for friends to stay.
The cabin has a wooden frame and a metal roof
"Staying here, I realised the many other families were doing the same," Brajovic told Dezeen.
"The second home becoming the fist one or moving to smaller communities, long term rentals of cabins and so on, simply moving to more resilient and safe areas," he added, "Monkey House is meant for hosting friends and as a holiday house for short and middle term rentals on the Airbnb platform."
The roof shelters a top floor terrace
Brajovic decided to build the cabin up on stilts so it sits amongst the trees after observing the return of some beloved local wildlife, which gives the cabin its name.
"A few years ago the monkeys that lived at the foot of Serra in Paraty disappeared," explained Brajovic. "It was said that it was due to yellow fever that supposedly spread among the primate families. I don't know, we were very sad.
The cabin is built on many slim stilts
"In 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the day we started thinking about a house connecting to the magnitud...