Concrete House II by A-Cero

Concrete wedges project out from the facade of this single-storey residence near Madrid by Spanish
architecture studio A-Cero.
Surrounded by grass landscaping, Concrete House II has grass ramps that slope up between the
concrete fins and onto the roof.
On the rear of the building the lounge, dining room, library, study and bedrooms have fully-glazed
walls overlooking the garden.
The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its last works about a big single-family house.
It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5,000 m2 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 padel 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.