Casa Brutale is a wall-to-wall water and concrete Super Casa set into cliffs above the Aegean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas, designed by Open Platform for Architecture.
The Casa Brutale is a focus on aesthetics, structure and engineering, as it is surrounded on three sides by utter earth. The fourth side boasts a wall entire made of glass, awarding with a magnificent view of the sea. The structure has been constructed from wood, concrete and reinforced glass, with nothing extending above ground level.
Unclad and simple, the house is all about modesty, making no impact on the landscape beyond a surface swimming pool and a set of steps. Descending these steps, though, brings you to the entire point of this home; an enormous glass façade set flush into the cliff face, bringing an incredible view of the Aegean sea to the entire residence. Upping the stakes, the living quarters are topped with a skylight that turns out to be, in fact, the swimming pool, made of reinforced glass, it functions as the only other window in the house, diffusing the sunlight to soften the hard surfaces of the building itself.
