Throughout history concrete has been the companion perfect brick, both have plagued the territory of concrete houses and buildings what, with more hits or less, represent the landscape we know today from our cities and towns.
According to the teacher of teachers, Le Corbusier…
With concretes that trap carbon dioxide, with the bio-concrete that repairs itself or with modular homes and prefabricated concrete houses whose perfection in the material is almost pristine without detracting from resistance in its technical aspects that the great Le Corbusier would have washing.
We are going to see real examples of what are the new construction trends with this precious material…
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From the Bahamas a luxury residential building is being building with a hexagonal façade structure that integrates in the different private balconies of each house a very peculiar element, its own private pool, from where to be able to observe an idyllic landscape facing the sea.
The renowned BIG architecture and design studio worldwide for building unconventional constructions, surprises us again with a structural project of concrete called “superslab” where the imagination meets the most exquisite luxury and geometry perfect. We are talking about the Honeycomb building.
Talk about buildings and concrete houses representative worldwide, is to speak of authentic engineering wonders.
This singular house with curved walls was designed to break the harmony of the environment in which it is located, built around of a point of reference, a hundred-year-old fir. The location of the house is in one of the most impressive forests that we can found in Karuizawa (Japan) and projected by the studio of architecture ARTechnic architects.
This example of a house with concrete is It is immersed in a forest generating a strong contrast between nature and its white facade. From inside we can find continuous and curved spaces, bright and large dimensions where the protagonism of the wood of local origin provides that warmth that every home needs.
The Tólo House project is one of those examples of singular concrete houses that that surprise you, that they excite you, that their forms deceive the viewer and comment... How has it been built? hand in hand a young talent who still has a long way to go, the Architect Álvaro Leite Siza, son of one of the architects most famous of our time, Alvaro Siza. He describes us by the middle of a house the exquisiteness and beauty of a waterfall artificial promoted by the material of excellence of the architecture that makes up rooms with a thousand details.
The house located in the town of Lugar das Carvalhinhas (Portugal) surprises from its base to a roof that it is hopelessly unrecognizable. The house is divided into various cubicles and concrete volumes that interact with each other adapting to the inclined topography of the plot.
The prisms that sit on the ground form some flat roofs with a perfect use for terraces and power enjoy excellent views. The complexity and delicacy of the project reflect a talent that still has a lot of to offer us.
Not all architects know how to find that relationship perfect between relaxation and a space to live. From the Guedes Cruz Arquitectos studio with the Wall House project located in Lisbon (Portugal) present us with a house that exudes modernism and avant-garde as well as pure relaxation.
The perfect combination of metals with modern materials enter into symbiosis giving away a perfect space for the enjoy and rest where part of the deck in a swimming pool that with its glass base, turns the house into a work of art where natural light has no limits.
From the uniqueness of Chinese architects in the city from Shanghai what are you from a vertical house where it has been wisely combined steel, concrete and glass by hand from the Chinese architecture studio Atelier FCJZ.
Transparency along 4 floors by means of slabs glass that make up a housing prototype what was built for the Biennale of Architecture and Contemporary Art West Bund.
Hand in hand with Beautell Arquitectos we moved to the world religious to find a true work of art where the exposed concrete is the maximum expression of monumentality and, at the same time, of the delicacy with which it is possible to work through this highly transformable and moldable material.
A hermitage located on the island of Hierro (Tenerife) that is adapted projecting a single volume that make up a triangular building.
On the walls we can see a Stations of the Cross formed by a total of 14 crosses gathered in the very texture of the wall major. In the background, overhead lighting is discovered on the main altar to emphasize it. A true gem and pleasure for the observer!
Uni-functionality, a house that is a residence at the same time an art gallery. From the Japanese architecture studio Fuse Atelier introduce us to a totally geometric house and volumetric that formed 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 coating. Double height spaces offer in the interior of the house an impressive aspect reinforcing the idea of gallery.
The Luciano Kruck architecture studio is characterized by work the formwork and exposed concrete in all your projects, Whether they are homes or buildings, they use this rough material as perfect weapon to create spectacular minimalist homes that captivate the viewer.
We leave some examples of homes with concrete from the office itself
Different international awards endorse the study as indisputable point of reference in the use of material par excellence of contemporary architecture.
The study uses the rough and arid aspect of concrete pure and seen that wisely combined with wood and large glass windows make up single-family homes that blend in along the forests in which they they build the houses.
The following project refers to the school of architecture design art than japanese architect fame Tadao Ando completed for the University of Monterrey (Mexico). The building is a concrete block designed as slices triangular shapes to create the look and feel of a twisted structure.
Some rectangular holes at the ends expose the amphitheater and the outdoor stairs while the entrance is located in the lower base of the building as a kind of access to the shelter.
From the architecture studio Tham & Videgård Hansson we They present a house in Sweden of about 360 square meters built in the shape of a cube whose shell is built with concrete cast in situ and the facades covered with plaster of dark blue color.
The interior layout is characterized by the fact that its spaces initially they did not have their usefulness designated, it was a free will where the owners would assign to the spaces, the determined use according to your interests.
To give greater emphasis to the three-dimensionality of the house, the windows protrude from the façade wall with a wooden carpentry. A looking house different for people without complexes.
I think by now we all know that the precast concrete have 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 originality and for a design sublime.
