Concrete House
Houses built primarily from concrete, covering structure, form, climate response and the material's role in residential design.
Earth Made Residence: Stacking a Ghanaian Compound House into 36 Units Made Entirely of Earth
Cublo reimagines Accra's traditional compound house as a dynamic, cantilevered block that argues earthen architecture can be iconic.
Earth Made: Rammed Earth Housing in Accra Organised Around an Old African Courtyard
A shortlisted proposal stacks four apartment types around a planted courtyard, letting earthen walls and long openings do the cooling work.
Studio Andre Lenza Shrinks a Family Home into a Single-Storey Goiânia House Behind Timber Screens
A couple's move to a smaller home in eastern Goiânia becomes a single-storey concrete house wrapped in timber screens, around a plunge pool and garden.
Infante Poblete Montt Suspends a Concrete Lookout over Zapallar Bay from the Top of El Morro Hill
On El Morro hill in Zapallar, Chile, a 400 m² board-formed concrete house rises above trees and rock to frame the entire bay in a single gesture.
Studio Font Builds a Hurricane-Ready Concrete House in Puerto Escondido from Five Planes and a Floating Pergola
On Oaxaca's Macahuite Beach, a 300 m² house of bare concrete walls and a 14-metre pergola frames the dune, the Pacific and the mountains behind it.
Moofer Architecture Stacks Terracotta Roofs and Brick Jali Screens into a Family Home in Rural Bangladesh
In Rangunia, near Chattogram, a 4,500 ft² brick and concrete house borrows the logic of the rural homestead: pond, screen, verandah and tile roof.
Memola Estúdio Layers a Young Family's Memories into a Four-Level Concrete House in São Paulo
In São Paulo, Cinco House keeps its rationalist concrete shell and fills four levels with brick, timber, tile and heirlooms for a growing family.
Grizzo Studio Folds a Concrete Bar over Two Planted Mounds on a Lagoon Shore in Pilar
In Pilar, Argentina, a board-formed concrete house rests on two mounds of native planting along more than 100 meters of lagoon shoreline.
Studio Font Scatters a Pink Concrete House into Fragments Across the Baja California Desert
Near Todos Santos, three pink concrete guest rooms and an open pavilion of crossing roofs turn a 630 m² off-grid house into a deliberate ruin.
Felipe Hess Arquitetos Pushes a São Paulo House to the Edge of Its Corner Lot to Free a 600 m² Garden
On a 1,000 m² corner lot in São Paulo, a brick, timber and concrete house claims only 40% of the ground and turns every room toward one continuous garden.
TETRO Arquitetura Lifts a Three-Winged Concrete House on Six Inhabited Pillars Above Old Stone Walls in Nova Lima
In Nova Lima's Atlantic Forest, Xingu House floats its suites six meters over inherited stone walls, letting slope, water and forest run beneath.
Estudio Feller Herc Sets a Board-Formed Concrete Family House into the Dunes Outside Colonia del Sacramento
Near Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, a 360 m² concrete house uses perforated mass, pergolas and a planted roof to pull dune and river into family life.
Atelier Central Arquitectos Slides a Concrete House Beneath the Pines of Southern Portugal
Between two nature reserves on the Algarve coast, a board-formed concrete residence dissolves into a wind-sculpted pine forest.
Pereda Han Estudio Carves Courtyards into a Concrete House in Chihuahua's Desert Climate
House Eighteen uses a U-shaped plan and inward-facing rooms to create a quiet domestic world shielded from the arid Mexican north.
L2C Arquitetura Terraces a Concrete House Down a Steep Braga Hillside
Two offset horizontal planes step across an irregular slope in Barros, turning topography into architecture rather than fighting it.
Studio Carlito e Renata Pascucci Threads a Concrete House Through Untouched Forest in São Sebastião
At the foot of the Serra do Mar, a 165-square-meter house on stilts defers entirely to the jungle around it.
Lopez Gonzalez Studio Stacks a Gravity-Defying Concrete House on a Steep Xalapa Street
Casa Tlaloc rises through four levels of increasing privacy, harvesting rain and framing views of Veracruz's misty highlands.
Gonzalo Bardach Builds a Concrete House in San Isidro That Reveals Itself Through Filtered Light
A 140-square-metre residence in one of Buenos Aires' leafiest suburbs uses pigmented concrete and timber screens to construct intimacy.
Studio EH Carves a Four-Story Concrete House into a Geological Slope in Liechtenstein
Haus W in Gamprin-Bendern reads the limestone strata of the Säntis Range and builds with them, not against them.
Read Studio Stacks a Concrete House Vertically to Let a Sri Lankan Garden Grow Around It
A 323-square-meter home in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte occupies a small footprint so mature trees, herbs, and fruit plants claim the rest of the site.
