Discover the underground house with rooftop pool and amazing sea views

Have you ever considered living in a house that had a rooftop pool? What if this pool was ground level and your house was underground? If the ceiling of your house were entirely glass so that from the living room you could see the pool from the back, would you think it was cool? What if this residence was on a cliff top? If the front wall was actually made of glass so that you could see the whole sea ahead, would you buy a house like that? Well, if you liked the idea of ​​living in an exotic house like this, two Greek architects can help you.

The description in the questions at the beginning of the text refers to the project called “Casa Brutale”, produced by the Greek architects Laertis Antonios Ando Vassiliou and Pantelis Kampouropoulos. Both are the owner-partners of the Open Plataform Architecture (OPA) architecture company and have sought to design a project that includes the so-called “Brutalist Architecture”.

This modern architectural concept was widely developed between the 1930s and 1970s. It encompasses the portrayal of wood in its natural form in printed drawings, as well as reinforced concrete left apparent as the most striking feature.

Thus the project's authors considered it a "poetic tribute to pure brutalism", as they combined the strong and less delicate features of the style with an incredible view and inviting ambience. The proposal of the architects would be to seek an insulation of the indoor environments through the reinforced underground walls that, combined with the pool structure on the ceiling, would keep the temperature always lower. The transparency of the ceiling with water and the wall with the front view would ensure an environment continuously illuminated by sunlight during the day.

The incredible view is part of the project by the fact that the house is built on a cliff top, which is a geographical formation consisting of abrupt coastal cliffs. The cliffs are established over thousands of years, during which the wall of earth and rock is eroded by the influence of seawater and rain.

So dear reader, would you live in 'Casa Brutale'? Leave your impression about the project in the Mega Curious Forum