Pure examples of concrete houses
Throughout history concrete has been the perfect companion to brick, both have plagued the territory of concrete houses and buildings that, with more or less success, represent the landscape that we know today of our cities and towns.
According to the teacher of teachers, Le Corbusier … "The veracity of Construction materials; concrete, stone and bricks, will be maintained in all buildings built or to be built ” And after spending more than 70 years of this famous phrase, we continue to build with concrete, but now and thanks to technology, we are already able to go beyond its limits as a material.
With concretes that trap carbon dioxide, with bio-concrete that repairs itself or with modular homes and prefabricated concrete houses whose perfection in the material is almost unpolluted without detracting from the resistance in its technical aspects that the great Le Corbusier would have. washed.
We are going to see real examples of what are the new construction trends with this precious material …
Challenging building structures
From the Bahamas a luxury residential building is rising with a hexagonal facade structure that integrates in the different private balconies of each house a very peculiar element, its own private pool, from where you can observe an idyllic landscape facing the sea.
The architecture and design studio BIG recognized worldwide for building unconventional constructions, once again surprises us with a structural concrete project called "superslab" where imagination meets the most exquisite luxury and perfect geometry. We are talking about the Honeycomb building.
Talk about buildings and concrete houses representative worldwide, is to speak of true engineering prodigies.
One of curved walls
This unique house with curved walls was designed to break the harmony of the environment in which it is located, built around a landmark, a centenary fir tree. The location of the house is in one of the most impressive forests that we can find in Karuizawa (Japan) and designed by the ARTechnic architects architecture studio.
East example of a house with concrete it is immersed in a forest generating a strong contrast between nature and its white facade. From the inside we can find continuous and curved, bright and large spaces where the prominence of locally sourced wood provides that warmth that every home needs.
The Tolo House
The Casa Tolo project is one of those examples of concrete houses singular that surprise you, that excite you, that their forms deceive the viewer and they comment… How was it built? From the hand of a young talent who still has a long way to go, the Architect Álvaro Leite Siza, son of one of the most famous architects of our time, Alvaro Siza. He describes to us through a house the exquisiteness and beauty of an artificial waterfall promoted by the material of excellence of the architecture that makes up some rooms with a thousand details.
The house located in the town of Lugar das Carvalhinhas (Portugal) surprises from its base to a roof that is irretrievably unrecognizable. The house is divided into several cubicles and concrete volumes that interact with each other adapting to the sloping topography of the plot.
The prisms that sit on the ground form flat roofs with a perfect use for terraces and to enjoy excellent views. The complexity and delicacy of the project reflect a talent that still has a lot to offer us.
A space to relax
Not all architects know how to find that perfect relationship between relaxation and a living space. From the Guedes Cruz Arquitectos studio with the Wall House project located in Lisbon (Portugal) they present us with a home that exudes modernism and avant-garde as well as pure relaxation.
The perfect combination of metals with modern materials enter into symbiosis, giving a perfect space for enjoyment and rest where the deck starts in a pool that with its glass base, turns the home into a work of art where natural light has no limits. .
Vertical glass housing
From the uniqueness of Chinese architects in the city of Shanghai, what are you of a vertical house where steel, concrete and glass have been wisely combined by the hand of the Chinese architecture studio Atelier FCJZ.
Transparency along 4 floors through glass slabs that make up a prototype of a house that was built for the West Bund Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art.
A unique architecture for modern times where the light mainly enters from the top through the roof.
A different hermit
From the hand of Beautell Arquitectos we moved to the religious world to find a true work of art where exposed concrete is the maximum expression of monumentality and, at the same time, of the delicacy with which it is possible to work through it. so transformable and moldable material.
A hermitage located on the island of Hierro (Tenerife) that was adapted by projecting a single volume that make up a triangular building.
On the walls we can see a way of the cross made up of a total of 14 crosses gathered in the very texture of the main wall. In the background a zenith lighting is discovered on the main altar to emphasize it. A real gem and a pleasure for the beholder!
A single volume of concrete
Uni-functionality, a house that is a residence as well as an artistic gallery. From the Japanese architecture studio Fuse Atelier they present us to a totally geometric and volumetric house that consists of two heights marked by the huge openings through which natural light enters.
The objective, to create a sculptural object where the walls and ceilings merge in a continuous movement with the appearance of a delicate origami exercise.
A house with great formal beauty reinforced by the authentic use of reinforced concrete in its structure and cladding. Double-height spaces offer a striking appearance inside the house, reinforcing the idea of a gallery.
Pure architecture exposed
The Luciano Kruck architecture studio is characterized by working with formwork and exposed concrete in all its projects, be they homes or buildings, they use this rough material as the perfect weapon to create spectacular minimalist homes that captivate the viewer.
We left some examples of concrete houses from the office itself
Different international awards endorse the study as an indisputable point of reference in the use of the material par excellence of contemporary architecture.
The study uses the rough and arid aspect of pure and exposed concrete that wisely combined with wood and large glass windows make up single-family homes that blend into the woods in which the houses are built.
A different art and architecture center
The following project refers to the school of architecture, art design that the fame of Japanese architect Tadao Ando completed for the University of Monterrey (Mexico). The building is a concrete block designed as triangular slices to create the look and feel of a twisted structure.
Rectangular openings at the ends expose the amphitheater and stairs to the open air, while the entrance is at the lower base of the building as a kind of access to the refuge.
Double house
From the architecture studio Tham & Videgård Hansson they present us a house in Sweden of about 360 square meters built in the shape of a cube whose shell is built with cast-in-place concrete and the facades covered with dark blue plaster.
The interior distribution is characterized because its spaces initially did not have their utility designated, it was a free will where the owners would assign the spaces, the use determined according to their interests.
To give greater emphasis to the three-dimensionality of the house, the windows stand out from the facade with a wooden carpentry. A different-looking home for people without complexes.
A different view
I think by now we all know that precast concrete has fully entered the world of interior design and industrial design. Objects that dazzle with really attractive ideas from the hand of great industrial designers who are taking over the rooms of the most modern homes. Examples of objects with concrete many, but the exquisiteness of the following lamp deserves a reminder both for its originality and for a sublime design.
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