Concrete House II by A-cero Architects
A-cero Architects have completed the Concrete House II in Madrid, Spain.
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Concrete House II by A-cero Architects
The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its latest works about a big single-family house. It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5000m2 plot. It is a single storey building and it has a 1.600 m2 built surface.
The first sensation that this house produces when people go into the plot is that the building seems to be hidden between concrete walls and vegetable ramps that extend up to the roof. They are dyed in dark gray and contain, between them, vegetation areas that seem to climb towards the sky. The house´s façade show a spectacular organic view of the whole house and so even the hard concrete shows its most kind face.
The back front of the house is totally opened towards the garden where the lounge, dining room, library, study and bedrooms are. In this façade the wide windows, the volumes set and the projections (made of concrete too enhance. These elements cover the several house´s porches. The large window of the main lounge hides itself automatically in order to make this stay completely opened to the exterior areas.
The plot includes also an elegant garden, a small lake and a pádel track.
The ecological aspect is very in this A-cero´s work: the façade and the roof have the main ecological roles because they are covered with low consume vegetation. Furthermore on the house´s roof has been implemented a renewable energy system made of wide surfaces with solar tubular collectors who allow that the energy autonomy of the house.
Visit the A-cero website – here.
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Bahu on 28 Jul 2010 at 5:05 am #
First one was amazing but now they all look the same
amor poligonero on 28 Jul 2010 at 7:35 am #
I´m shocked. AMAZING!! It´s a work of art.
squid on 28 Jul 2010 at 8:21 am #
ten kinds of horrible… and i LIKE concrete!
WW2-bunker entry
pointless angle on the dining table
staircase too steep
ugly sofas
living room like an ugly hotel lobby
painting of an ashtray? that says it all!
Chad on 28 Jul 2010 at 8:39 am #
Nice!
BjZ on 28 Jul 2010 at 9:28 am #
A-cero should do the designs for the next star trek.
chris charalambidis on 28 Jul 2010 at 9:53 am #
perfect concept-perfect job.!!! i admire you gendlemen.!!!!
TJ on 28 Jul 2010 at 10:29 am #
Amazing! The way the linear lines and sloping faces are reflected both inside and outside the house.
F-J on 28 Jul 2010 at 11:23 am #
YES.
Another fabulous A-cero piece!
Tanr on 28 Jul 2010 at 1:55 pm #
No one company on earth has better concepts built in real life.
love them!
Lance on 28 Jul 2010 at 2:11 pm #
Another stunning bunker by A-cero. I say that with a little sarcasm, but with great respect as they obviously build for clients with very, very specific needs and most likely stringent security concerns. Though the outside of their homes are often very linear and elegant, they are still very prison like at times. But again, a stunning home.
Santiago on 28 Jul 2010 at 3:58 pm #
Nice landscape. Unliveable spaces, why design a house that looks like a bunker office ??
k griffin on 28 Jul 2010 at 4:57 pm #
A-cero seem to me to specialize in hyper exotic showpieces of gratuitous, superfluous design. [This example is no exception.]
I know – it’s perhaps a bit rude to criticize… but somethings just get under the discerning person’s skin.
Even as a staunch modernist, I simply can’t imagine anyone living here. The occasional extravagant (trophy display) party? Without question. Bleck.
Chris on 28 Jul 2010 at 6:16 pm #
Absolutely love the design..not for my house though. Would be a great museum design, but just way too stark in form and color palette for a residence.
alberto on 28 Jul 2010 at 7:37 pm #
Is there anything to these solar tubular collectors? Frankly, they are the most interesting items in the house…
Jimw on 28 Jul 2010 at 8:23 pm #
When I was initially introduced to the work of A-cero, I was blown away. However, after seeing numerous examples of their work, I get the feeling these “collaborations” between client – architect are self-serving. And I find this latest exploitation disturbingly uncomfortable….it comes across as fascist.
Urvi Dharod on 28 Jul 2010 at 9:09 pm #
Just two words: neutral but beautiful !
Diego on 28 Jul 2010 at 9:48 pm #
Incredible design
Love the way furniture, specially in the kitchen plays with the shape of the house.
Thats why I always think that an arquitect should have an entire team with different specialities like in this house there is an industrial designer, landscaper, arquitect, structural everything
vit on 28 Jul 2010 at 10:13 pm #
the essence. just the way it should be. modern future…
Miss Honey on 28 Jul 2010 at 11:29 pm #
I am sorry, but the interior design is the epitome of tacky. Sometimes they try to hard to go avant-garde. It hurs. It is just not happening A-cero. I used to like their work, but it’s getting old. I wish they were more versatile.
Schalk on 29 Jul 2010 at 3:34 am #
Well, really beautiful work from them again, but not all that practical.
As a designer I would probably not climb up and slide down my dining table, BUT I can tell you that all my non-design friends will do exactly that for giggles… So I’d have to join them.
Perhaps the A-Cero guys are more fun than the stark lines they choose to use?
Catherine on 29 Jul 2010 at 3:42 am #
I find it a bit overwhelming.
Andre Panatto on 29 Jul 2010 at 7:11 am #
Modern, clean, sophisticated, amazing landscape, simply sensational.
Larry on 29 Jul 2010 at 9:07 am #
They went too far with this one.
k griffin on 29 Jul 2010 at 10:25 am #
Agree with Miss Honey – this is uncouth. Seems to be really “trying” to be a forward design. It succeeds, however, at being simply superfluous and unrestrained.
korede roberts on 29 Jul 2010 at 10:43 am #
i love the interior designs
rodney on 29 Jul 2010 at 10:52 am #
Interiors are clumsy and seem over-done.
This project looks like a mediocre student project come to life.
It’s also boring and lacks a lot elegance.
Connie on 29 Jul 2010 at 11:46 am #
Too much gray and black. And imagine walking DOWN the stairs with feet larger than toddler size. Hazardous!
Rudy on 29 Jul 2010 at 11:40 pm #
I liked the first house in the Dominican Republic. From there on the numerous postings from A-Cero showed a spiral downwards until they must have reached the bottom with this design.
tina o'darby on 29 Jul 2010 at 11:40 pm #
A-cero may be my new heroes…
This is breath-taking
amor poligonero on 30 Jul 2010 at 4:06 am #
I see a lot of envy in some comments…
AP on 30 Jul 2010 at 2:38 pm #
This house falls almost in the same realm (category) as something done by the infamous Frank O. Gehry. Either you love it or you hate it – and that is for sure reflected in the comments attached to the post.
I personally enjoy some of the different aspects but am turned off by some. I love the idea of the buttresses outside of the house that seem like fingers stretching out into the landscape, anchoring the house (see image 5 specifically). I also like the terracing of the ground to quite literally mimic the topography lines.
The interior seems a bit hazardous. I don’t think I’d want to bring kids into this house…I could see one of them running into the sharp corner edge of the bar and splitting their head open…
sepideh sabet on 31 Jul 2010 at 1:14 am #
Great Concept, amazing
Elli Davis on 31 Jul 2010 at 11:55 am #
Interesting project. When I saw the exterior pictures of this house I thought to myself: What a simple and uninteresting building. But after some more pictures I started to like it a lot. Especially the interior design is simply perfect.
Steve on 01 Aug 2010 at 4:21 am #
A-cero never fails to amaze. They are so unique. I love their stuff.
Nash on 04 Aug 2010 at 11:48 am #
This house is definitely a bit shocking, overwhelming and unwelcoming… but, for what it is obviously meant to be, it was executed fabulously. I wouldn’t pick it for my home, but it is amazing and so interesting as a structure and a work of art.
C. O'Connor on 05 Aug 2010 at 10:10 pm #
Loved the availability of light and the bedrooms. However, the entrance with buttresses looks too much like the entrance to King Tut’s tomb.
Tom Harper on 05 Aug 2010 at 10:40 pm #
It would look right at home along the Maginot Line. Apparently, they couldn’t get the howitzers installed by the time the photo shoot was scheduled. I see plenty of designs here that I would covet; this is not one of them (and little of A-cero’s work ever is).
hamilton on 23 Aug 2010 at 7:20 pm #
Sometimes innovation is ugly by necessity, I think there is brillance here, got sort of a Machu Picchu vibe from the exterior terracing, which somehow managed to soften the incredibly harsh architecture, but in total, this is absolutely ridiculous.
nanzcode on 04 Feb 2011 at 7:31 am #
Nice job A-CERO