Brutalism architecture

In the center of San José del Cabo, where urban life meets the slower rhythms of Baja California Sur, Estero is a boutique mixed-use development that rethinks contemporary living through architecture, materiality and community. Zaickz Zaickz Zaickz Initiated by developer Oeste Works, Barde vanVoltt was invited to shape the architectural and spatial identity of the project, working in close collaboration with construction partner Arquipartners. The result is a carefully considered building that responds to its climate, context and way of life. Zaickz Zaickz Estero consists of six residences above a ground floor hospitality space, bringing private living and shared experiences into one cohesive whole. The arc... More

Triangles House is being built on a site in Nova Lima (MG, Brazil) where there are no native plants: the land is a forest of eucalyptus and casuarina trees with grass and ornamental plants. The house has three bedrooms and, like our Cerrado House, has a swimming pool on the terrace that serves as a roof for the veranda. The parti of the house is quite simple, a rectangle. However, the purity of the rectangular geometry is broken by two elements: the two staircases leading to the terrace. They function as diagonals that divide the rectangular box, generating triangular and trapezoidal geometries and inviting the user to climb up to the terrace-pool esplanade. While seeking to explore the plasticity of basic architectural elements, the proj... More

Japanese House II is a private villa located on Phra Tamnak Hill in Pattaya, Thailand, approximately 150 meters from the coastline. Designed by architect Mario Kleff, the residence explores the relationship between architecture and structure through a restrained palette of exposed concrete and long-span structural elements. Mario Kleff Home owner 2023 The house is built on an 800 m² plot and is organized across three levels connected by an internal elevator. A basement level accommodates parking, storage, and building systems, while the main residential floors contain five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, and a sequence of living spaces that extend toward outdoor terraces and a swimming pool. The upper floor forms the social core o... More

Situated near a sparse forest with intriguing vistas over the suburbs of Nicosia, this house stands in a deliberately ambiguous way: Rather than adopting a conventional residential typology that opens outward to offer uninterrupted views of the surrounding landscape, it rises as an austere, introverted box. Is it a building, a sculpture or a container? The architectural proposal constitutes a systematic elaboration of the primordial dwelling-box and its reinterpretation in relation to contemporary modes of domestic living. Caption Caption Caption The design begins with a three-dimensional grid - a lattice of points forming the rudimentary outline of a box with a 14×17 meters plan. Fragments of the natural landscape gra... More

Some houses are not designed—they are remembered. Casa Tao was not born from a technical drawing, but from the silent memory of those who inhabit it. It is a house that does not seek to respond to an image, but to a life. Or rather: to a way of living.  Gustavo grew up in a humble house made more of effort than of materials. The son of farmers and craft merchants—people with rough hands and generous eyes—who, though their studies were prematurely interrupted, managed to instill in him a desire to understand the world. He grew up in Puerto Vallarta, a place on the Pacific coast of Mexico, where sun and humidity define the rhythm of the days, and where shade is not an accident, but a precious asset—a true refuge.... More

At Collage Architects, we adeptly navigate the intersection of design philosophy and budgetary constraints, embodying a pragmatic yet innovative approach to architecture. Confronted with the challenges of limited space and budget fluctuations, we embraced creative solutions to realize our vision. Witsawarut Kekina Our endeavor commenced with the recognition that traditional construction methodologies were inadequate for our proposed three-story office edifice on a confined 82-square-meter plot in Soi Ratchadaphisek 32, Bangkok. The spatial constraints and adjacent structures presented significant logistical challenges, necessitating the adoption of a post-tension structure. This deviation from conventional post-and-lintel systems faci... More

When we rented the premises the builders were already knocking out old historical bricks. We have asked to keep them to use at the cash register allowing each cafe guest to touch the hundred-year`s history.  This is the memory of the place that along with its history was crucial The basic purpose of a coffee shop is to be a place where you can grab your morning coffee to-go, have a meeting or stop for breakfast. Ilya Ivanov Ilya Ivanov Our coffee shop has three zones: 1. The buffer zone between the street and the cafe. We see this part as a city square and that is why there is no classic seating with tables. Here we have placed plywood cubes, benches and tall concrete cylinder shaped columns for the guests to stand by for... More

The Residential Building H1 is located in Balneário Piçarras city in the northern seashore of Santa Catarina State.  The building consists of a free ground floor under pilotis, where garages are located as well as the vertical circulation. There are other three pavements where six residential apartments are distributed. Alexandre Zelinski Alexandre Zelinski The land of 250 m2 chosen is located in the center of the city. It has 12,5m of front and 20m length. The architectural plan explores the local landscape, so that all apartments have a view of the sea. Alexandre Zelinski Alexandre Zelinski Aiming at qualifyingc the city´s space, the project does not include the construction of a wall in line... More

At the express request of the client, a multipurpose space is conceived with the capacity to grow together or be divided into different environments depending on the needs. The design started from the repetition of the same concrete basic geometric figure, independent by itself, massive, almost cubical that housed each one of the activities. It is placed or stacked according to an ordering based on the program. These prisms, through, are conceived heavy, in concrete, emphasizing the inalterability of natural routes, caves or cavities, which surprise by ending in unexpected places, in this case in a terraced square. Caption The design grows through successive stacking and movement in plan, thus achieving a dynamic set of volumes in ke... More

Real de los Reyes is a group of houses located in the Coyoacan borough, south Mexico City, where museums, craft markets and public spaces full of history stand out, preserving a colonial and bohemian style. Jaime Navarro The area is full of recreational places for everyday life, from outdoor cafes, restaurants, art galleries, ice cream parlors to tree-lined and cobblestone streets. It gives you the feeling of traveling back in time in an environment of history, culture and tradition, without losing services such as shopping centers, schools, gyms and restaurants. Jaime Navarro Real de los Reyes offers luxury and comfort for its inhabitants through its large areas, security system, architectural finishes and distribution of space... More

Yoga Room is a Belgian based yoga practice company, with studios in Belgium and France.  In Lyon, Yoga Room opened in 2019 a brand new 600 square meters studio in the Part Dieu district.  To understand the genesis of the project, the information of the location is important as the new studio takes place between two hisotrical brutalist building from the 60, build by Jean Zumbrunnen.  In collaboration with Opla architecture, Ré Architecture invested this architectural heritage and remodeled this large concrete/brutalist place and turned it into a cosy zen space.  The design of the place is caracterized by its simplicity, with subtle lighting, hints of plywood and pristine drywalls, the concrete has been revealed and... More

The Cubes Aleorion is a proposal for a lighthouse at the port of Volos, located at the innermost point of the Pagasetic Gulf  and standing at the end of the 1 km long breakwater, commonly called by the locals as “kordoni” (lace or cord). Aleorion [etym. < anc. Greek: ἀλεωρή “avoidance, to avoid”] is a navigation mark to show reefs or other hazards. It is a modern interpretation of what is considered to have been the oldest known lighthouse. Inspiration for the Cubes Aleorion was the so-called Aleorion of Xerxes, built around 480 BC and once stood on the reef “Lefteris”, in the middle of the sea passage between Skiathos island and mount Pelion in central Greece. Remnants o... More