A black house made of charred wood and dark stone in Mexico has been designed by American architecture and interior design Studio Madaldi Studio. This boxy house on Valle DE Bravo looks like a shadow in a green environment. The house, known as Casa di-dox, includes a crisscrossed volume on a hillside in the scenic Valle DE Bravo region, 140 km west of Mexico City. The studio sourced the cladding of the founder house from the local area, including charred cedars and stones from the nearby Acatlan quarry. It describes it as a juxtaposing "very modern avant-garde architecture built with local materials".

The volumes step up the site from the entrance on the lower eastern side, so the studio decided to raise a huge volume on concrete walls as a way to give height to the house. Large windows from the 20-foot-tall (six-metre-tall) volume offer views from the living room to a nearby lake in Valle de Bravo.Another wood-clad volume extends perpendicular to the main house to create a roof over an exterior living room and dining room. It adjoins a sunken terrace and together they are intended to act as a divider between the house's entrance and the back garden.

Magaldi Studio also used a second garden that includes a jacuzzi sunken into stone floor to divide the residence from the guest house at the rear of the site.Wooden beams are left exposed across the ceilings in the outdoor areas and throughout the inside of the residence. This forms part of a material palette that creates "a lighter and warmer effect" alongside exposed concrete and brick, brick covered with grey cement paste.

In the living area, the studio created a fireplace clad in the burnt cedar and chose an elective mix of wood furniture that nods to the woodland on view. A white-painted brickwork wall in one of the bedrooms is also fitted with a fireplace and two log storage units.