Inherited from Le Corbusier, Brutalism is an architectural fashion that depends on raw concrete and its capacity to combine into a wild setting with out distorting it – a efficiency that LAAV Architects demonstrates with its Casa Brutale. Overlooking the Aegean Sea, this “idea home” carved into the rock on the aspect of a cliff plays the card of minimalism. The raw and primitive aspect of concrete is matched by the brilliance and transparency of glass. The spotlight of the present? The swimming pool on the roof whose azure reflections tint the concrete walls in a play of light and shadow. A poetic scenography which marks a profitable cohabitation with the encompassing nature…
Yaël Nacache
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