A Modern Indian Brutalist House With Artistic Touches
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Combining a crude Brutalist House composition with softer Indian interior touches, this fabulous home design is a dramatic blend of modern architectural principles and traditional Indian typologies. Created by talent at The Web Architects, this unique house was designed for a small entrepreneurial family with a creative mindset. In addition to running a flower business, the client is also a poet, while his son is an avid nature photographer. Built on a plot of about 12,000 square feet, the large property was shaped to provide a simple, functional home. A minimal material palette of concrete, natural stone and keystone provide a modest interior base for decorated Indian elements and art.
With a southwest-facing plot, the brutalist house exterior had to be shaped to protect its interior from the scorching sunlight and heat. An overhanging canopy was inspired by the mysterious sight of an Indian woman shading her face from the sun under the folds of a pallu or odhani.
A bold red sculpture draws a focus near the back door of the home, contrasting brightly with the green landscape. To prevent the architectural envelope from appearing too thick and disproportionate to the main volume of the home, the protruding case was cut and staggered.
The sloping profile of the canopy gives the structure a visually light result while reaching a deep shadow over the windows.
The sliced facade also creates three cantilevered levels. Various terraces are pocketed under the canopy to take advantage of the happy shade, most of which have abundant greenery and flowers. The simple entrance slides under a concrete canopy. It has a three-meter high door that is pulled out and embedded in stone. The front door welcomes guests into an impressively long passageway with seating arranged on the left and a waiting lobby on the right.
The deep overhangs protect not only the windows from direct sunlight but the outer walls from heat gain.
The architectural concept was finalized after studying the solar path.
The concrete walls of the home are woven with lumber, which provides additional visual interest without disrupting the honesty of the material.
The property, called Beton Brut (raw concrete in French), takes advantage of the edifying color and freshness of plant life both inside and out. Due to the predominantly arid climate of the region, drought-prone plants have been selected for the southwest-facing terraces. These temperate specimens also encourage an influx of beautiful butterflies and hummingbirds to the outdoor terraces, creating an amazing biodiversity.
As we move inside the home, we discover a magnificent double-height living room. Molded concrete continues to have a textural interest here, and provides a cool gray background for the warmth of rich tequila furniture. Living spaces are focused on the garden to establish a consistent connection with nature.
A highly decorative Jharokha makes a striking contradiction to the simplicity of the brutalist concrete structure. The opening overlooks the large living room below, creating a close link between two levels of the home.
The complexity of the Jharokha design is complemented by traditional carved art on the opposite side of the room. Many decorative pieces in the home are picked up from old Havelis, mandapas, and vases to soak up an authentic Indian essence into the home.
Interior windows create more connections between levels and benefit from natural light from every direction.
The staircase design features open wooden steps to achieve a light balance with the bold concrete surroundings.
Colorful artwork and round portholes add interesting details to the climb.
Up on the landing area, glass railings allow the unique staircase design to be taken fully without obstruction.
A courtyard grows at the base of the stairs. The indoor plants were chosen to help maintain the humidity level of the interior.
Two staircases are welcome in sunlight throughout the day. One, a linear slit-like opening near the wall and the other a dim roof lantern. A dramatic play of light falls over the textured concrete to create a dynamic setting.
Above, natural photography brings color and life to the design of the master bedroom. The moderate material palette of concrete, sandstone, mud stone and keyboard wood continues in the bedrooms to ensure a quietly cohesive interior aesthetic throughout.
A teak deck bed has a floating trapdoor design that leaves the floor space looking clear and untidy. High-gloss Mud-stone tiles reflect the furniture contours, creating a dreamy, watery effect. A beautiful plantation welcomes the homeowner outside onto the shaded terrace.
Striking planters, a comfortable chair and a small side table form an inviting reading area.
On the ground floor and site plan, we see how trees have been strategically positioned around the property so that when they bloom, they will protect the house from the southwest heat.
The garden is located to the west.
Once the floor plan was completed, it was important to ensure that sunlight coming in from the southwest was controlled to protect the home from severe weather conditions.
Car parking is arranged within the cool limits of an underground garage.
The architectural shape creates a duality of light and shadow, which also enhances the board-shaped texture of the concrete.
The home design communicates a great sense of space that unites the family without endangering individuality.
Areas of congregation are interspersed with places of solitude to provide a sense of freedom and luxury.
Despite its assertive geometric shapes and powerful monolithic appearance, the home contains an emotional heart.
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A Monolithic Argentinian House Set In Stone And Concrete
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This Argentine house takes on a linear, monolithic shape that dominates a green landscape next to an indigenous forest. Built with walls of cold concrete, the large house features a hard, brutalist exterior that can be seen from afar. As viewers approach, intermittent walls of rustic stone interrupt the smooth expanses of gray imagery, bringing texture and depth into rectangular cuts. Created by architects at Patio Studio, the house design is both separated and connected by courtyard areas that expand the volume of the home. The patio elements create an internal-external connection and serve as an integral part of the floor layout, complementing the main functions of the home.
Located on the edge of a sloping neighborhood, the house is blessed with green surroundings and abundant native forest background. The land on which the linear concrete house is built is suitably flat.
Apart from lawns, vegetation around the house is sparse. A raised planter was built at the front of the house to healthily balance the cold concrete and stone exterior.
A swimming pool embraces the side of a ground floor terrace, where outdoor furniture encourages socializing in the open air. The ground floor terrace also has a barbecue area and is connected to a volleyball court.
Soil was removed from around the site to raise the house to a rise of 1.3 meters. This adjustment raises the line of sight to pass over the neighboring grove and to a higher view of the larger landscape.
The upper floor of the home contains nine different spaces: the living room, dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
The rooms are connected by a passage and separated by courtyards.
Inside the home, warm and inviting atmospheric lighting illuminates walls of rich wood tone panels and matching doors. A homemade built-in sofa design echoes the elegant and linear aesthetics of the home exterior. Cognac leather cushions soften the look.
A stone fireplace cuts down between large living room windows. Modern wooden storage units fly in all directions.
Walking along the corridor that connects the rooms, we pass doors to terraces and many crude stone presentation walls.
On one of the terraces, we discover a complex view of overlapping interior and exterior volumes.
The ground floor garage pulls up along with the pool and barbecue, separated by a thick stone wall.
Eleven courtyards create voids across the volume of the house that separate the nine solid interior modules.
The monolithic concrete structure of the building gives the home an introverted character.
The concrete skin that surrounds both inner and outer courtyards ensures ultimate privacy from even the nearest neighbors.
Once the homeowners and their visitors make it past the secretive concrete armor that contains the home, focus is largely pushed to the courtyards inside.
The wide path that rises into the center of the house is an experience in itself, where glimpses of the landscape compete with bold architectural features.
A flower bed filled with delicate white flowers seems playfully contradicting the weight, solidity and linearity of the neighboring architecture.
At night, the brutalist house design is revived by a light that explodes from massive windows and open courtyards.
While the concrete entrance looks tough and presumptuous, it is actually a gently sloping gradient that serves as a non-discriminatory access ramp for all physical abilities.
The winding path draws a welcoming meander to the upper floor where the main residence is located.
On the slope, a look into the social spaces of the home is allowed through wide windows.
Raised planters bring a touch of the green landscape to the top of the elegant concrete access ramp.
The same stone and concrete finishes form a coherent material palette both outside and inside the home, with wooden elements added inside to smooth and heat the living spaces and bedrooms.
The ascending path rises to the top in the form of a question mark. Shrubs grow around the sides, mitigating the impact of its concrete finish.
Whether looking at the inner courtyards of this introverted house, or looking at the neighboring forest, the views are magnificent.
Bird’s eye view of the property and plot.
The courtyards are perceived as just another part of the house to be frequented and enjoyed as well as the other rooms.
Uplights bring a whole new character to the outdoor spaces at night, as they highlight the textured look of the cast concrete and the imposing steep stone walls. Shrubs make dramatic shadows.
The prolific use of wood in the interior makes a smooth change of the external image of the home.
The widget evokes a seemingly endless arrangement of near and far views.
Elegant outdoor furniture ties in with black steel elements embedded around the architecture and borrows wooden accents from the interior.
Concrete slices hang like huge Tetris shapes against the clear blue sky, resting on a green bed.
The driveway reaches all the way to the driveway.
The property is located just a few meters back into the plot.
Overlapping concrete slabs create a unique entry point.
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A Beautifully Landscaped Brutalist House [Visualized]
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A wood and concrete brutalist exterior shelter this 2900-square-foot home project, based in Houston, USA. Created by the architects at Robertson Design, The house Concrete Box hides a two-story home with a multi-level living space. The ground floor is a brutal concrete back room with a clearly comfortable essence that comes from luxurious upholstered furniture, attractive wood-clad elements and a functional kitchen located right at the heart of the home. Private courtyards and a large garden surround the cool concrete interior with beautiful landscaped views. Upstairs, the house is revealed to be a family home, with two children’s rooms and a serene master suite.
The concept of The Concrete Box was born from three main purposes. The first goal was to begin the experience with a choreographic entry sequence, the second, to maintain material clarity, and the third was to establish a bold sculptural presence.
The brutalist exterior of the house consists of three main volumes, which are a concrete box for the ground floor living space, a wooden box for the private bedroom and bathrooms upstairs, and a low concrete wall that surrounds a courtyard around the front entrance.
Only two windows pierce the front of the fort building, so that the solid sculptural element is interrupted as little as possible. Entrance to the home is made between the two overlapping concrete walls in the front. A courtyard sanctuary awaits between the solid walls that lead you to the front door.
A side entrance is disguised as a wooden lath window that looks into the courtyard.
The wooden gate aligns with a wooden lath window on the upper floor to create a cohesive aesthetic.
One push turns the long, wooden barred gate on its axis, giving access to the entrance courtyard.
The brutal courtyard walls are lined with elegant planting. Mounded ground cover gently molds the edge of the gravel walkway,
The side entrance gate facilitates access from the car park. Alternatively, a rear front door secures the carport to a mud room at the rear of the property.
A slideshow creates a welcoming snapshot of the interior.
Passing through a darkened entrance hall with a low ceiling, a thick walled opening leads to the high and brightly lit main living space. The open layout is sandwiched between serene views of a closed courtyard in front and a large garden behind. A multi-level floor creates a clear zoning between a sunken living area, a midway kitchen and an elevated dining area. A long row of storage cabinets serve as media in front of the sitting area and become kitchen cabinets at the end end.
A tan leather sofa and contrasting cream chairs make up the comfortable lounge space. A square coffee table provides a bold black visual anchor in the center of the opening plan. Behind, a skylight bathes the central kitchen island in natural sunlight. The abundance of natural light in the living space and open views into the courtyard and garden comes as a pleasant contradiction to the solid facade.
A long kitchen window overlooks a narrow perimeter garden that is large enough just to give a beautiful view.
The floor on one side of the kitchen island is higher than the other, which means the breakfast bar can be provided with a comfortable, children’s dining bench instead of bar stools.
The dining bench also reduces visual disturbances that are minimal at all times. The stone roofs in the centralized kitchen darkly complement the extreme black window frames at each end of the room.
Large doors behind the open concept adjoin the interior with the tree-lined garden.
Initially a concrete terrace extends the interior floor treatment to the exterior living space, before an attractive wooden deck takes over. The elegant modern outdoor chair seen on the wooden deck is the Easy Chair Grill designed by Francois Azambourg for Ligne Roset.
The contrast of concrete and wooden deck reflects the materials used in the construction of the house itself.
A sculptural focus is set at the end of the large garden, protruding from the shade of the trees.
Back inside the home, the modern staircase design has a striking single cantilevered concrete staircase at its base.
The rest of the stairs are solid wooden steps and lifts. A door to the first children’s room can be seen ahead, with a set of double doors leading into the washroom on the right.
A white lath railing extends to the landing ceiling.
At the top of the stairs, interior picture windows accept light from a bedroom.
A wide window blesses the master bedroom with a serene green view.
The private master bathroom is a large and luxurious space with marble tiled walls and tailored furniture.
The self-contained bathtub and shower are located inside its own bright and airy humid room. An enclosed toilet is located on the opposite side of the double sink.
On the floor plan for the home, we can see that the two children’s rooms are adjacent to a bathroom Jack and Jill. The master series is blessed with a huge wardrobe, as well as a massive bathroom.
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A Modern Brutalist House in Japan: Exquisite Details
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A modern brutalist exterior openly surrounds this delicately detailed Japanese home, expertly designed by Apollo Architects & Associates. The 410-square-meter property is located in a quiet suburban neighborhood in the densely populated Kanto region. The homeowners acquired this terrestrial and irregularly formed part with significant family time. The owners wanted to incorporate courtyards as part of their home life together, and so the design began to take shape within the difficult topography. The distinctive outdoor environment expands the living space in complete privacy. The home interior carries a contemporary ranch-style aesthetic that forms a comfortable combo of living room and dining room, and a closed, glass walled kitchen.
Two colossal concrete volumes make up the brutalist house exterior. Atmospheric light shone along the edge of a wide driveway, mysteriously leading the way to the parking garage and entrance.
The driveway leads into a covered four-parking garage, located under the main mass of the board-shaped concrete house. With the property lifted off the road, the main living space is accessed by an elevator or staircase from the secure car park.
In the concrete living room, wooden panels heat up the formwork ceiling, adding a contemporary ranch-style aesthetic to space.
Leather strong cushions take the brown accent to a modern design of L-shaped sectional sofa.
A small seat is located separately from the main lounge, and a formal dining room is arranged in the back of the open plan.
A small courtyard sits between the comb room and dining room and the separate kitchen, creating a happy connection with the outside.
A large garden terrace is attached to the living room on the south side.
The centrally located courtyard brings a flood of sunlight into the back of the large room, and gives the dining room a beautiful, green, natural view.
The rectangular dining table reflects the influx of natural sunlight, maximizing its impact.
Modern closets run the entire length of the room, starting as a media closet in the living area and ending as a buffet in the dining area.
Elegant candelabra and a modern fruit bowl make a chic dining table ornament.
After dark, the interior lives under a warm and atmospheric light scheme.
LED ribbons are set around the perimeter of the room, causing a glow on a floor that continues out into the walled garden with one seamless swing.
Another strip of LED marks the top of the tailored cabinets that connect the two living spaces.
The brightness creates the pleasantness of a fireplace without the flame.
Modern artwork and the impressive formwork ceiling are drastically highlighted by the mood lighting.
Glass double doors connect the enclosed kitchen to the combo living room and dining room. A second set of glass doors leads into a corridor.
The small courtyard gives the kitchen an exterior view.
In the kitchen, a proportionate island includes a dining room as an alternative to the more formal dining room.
Golden kitchen lighting maintains the atmospheric atmospheres of the dining room and living room space.
Gray glossy closets contrast starkly with clean white roofs.
A modern glass fruit bowl presents an opportunity to add color into the monochrome kitchen decorating scheme.
A glass table lamp completes the chic glass bowl and leaves the patio window unobstructed.
In the large south-facing garden, high walls allow the residents to enjoy their distinctive outdoor environment in complete privacy from the neighbors.
The board-shaped concrete walls create a textural consistency around each of the outdoor spaces that is gently captured in the surrounding light.
Elevators transform outdoor plants into amazing foci across the tiled terrace.
Modern metal staircase design climbs from the parking garage to the living space under a long skylight. Access to the elevator is located just beyond the steps.
The large garden terrace connects the living room with the master bedroom and bathroom.
A home workspace is built in at the end of a long run of built-in units. Their bright black finish reflects the light, the furniture and the art.
A home workspace has a tailored L-shaped desk built into small apartments. Eames bird controls productivity from the window.
The bathroom is a luxurious space, with an edge view of the very private terrace garden on the south side. Black glossy closets build up storage full of vanity.
A waterproof TV provides entertainment while resting in the bathtub.
A sunny corridor runs away from the living room. Sunlight through the skylight creates dynamic shadows and glow across a wall of bright closet doors and interior doors that lead to the bedroom, bathroom and laundry room.
Elegant outdoor seating sits on the terrace outside the master bedroom, while a cheerful sky-blue outdoor sofa and chair color the terrace directly from the living room. An outdoor coffee table surrounds the comfortable layout.
A concrete overhang prevents direct sunlight from hitting the interior spaces, keeping the home more comfortably cool.
A pergola cover creates a light play through the small courtyard between the living room and kitchen.
Small trees lie on the roof terrace. High lights highlight its fine branches in the evening.
The seemingly impenetrable concrete exterior masks the delicate detail that awaits inside.
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