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@vigneshe4306

7 ай бұрын

3:19

I visited this house during the Open Houses Perth, and is truly an exceptional house. It understands the environment it sits upon perfectly. For anyone who is unfamiliar with Perth, its extremely hot, and the light is so incredibly bright, you can't have Sunglasses! I understand that need for darkness and escape from the light and heat, a refuge. The sunrises early by 5am in summer the sun is up - darkness is absolute if you want to sleep until 7am. This house was an inspiration for my own home, we painted walls darker, we went moodier, we went with that need to come home to a cocoon after a day spent in constant daylight and brightness. So, I get this house, and what it is doing, and it does it brilliantly. We live in bright light and constant sun probably 300 or more days a year... and sometimes we crave for an escape from it.

I actually love the purity of brutalist architecture and how they have softened it here with greenery that appears to be reclaiming the space.

Nicest prison I've seen. How much yard time do the inmates get each day?

Looks like an underground Bunker.

@paranoidhumanoid

7 ай бұрын

Or a MORG.

@georgewhitehouse8630

5 ай бұрын

Hunker

I love it and hate it at the same time. It's somewhere I'd love to stay at but not live in fulltime. I appreciate it for what it is, but it's too dark for every day. I would definitely feel secure whilst waiting out a storm! I do think it looked out of place on that street though, but I suppose if you're pushing the envelope, perhaps it's just right where it is?!

Interesting house. It is so nice to see someone walking through the houses. It shows the proportions.

This is very cool to look at - this bunker-like space with textured brownish/greyish hued walls, streaks of sunlight traveling across the courtyard.... but would I want to live in a bunker? No way... you get little to no natural light, you get very dark courtyards, it's depressing. Nature is beautiful, sunlight is beautiful, blue skies - I want to see it, not be sheltered from it.

@charlottehall5191

7 ай бұрын

Agree.

It's so interesting to hear the different perspectives on this. I feel a sense of cozy, retreat, and being nestled up in this house. I love the privacy of it and how all the plant matter brings more life in.

It is beautifully and aesthetically designed. This is actually what my husband and I is trying to convey to the architect builder who is currently working for our dream home in the Philippines!

Love the house. Perfect for someone like me- highly sensitive introvert

Love, love, love. Morq is making magic out here! Andrea's explanation of the conceptual part of the architecture was excellent.

@sharrebenezer

7 ай бұрын

The architecture must be a spiritualist

Wow. Wayyyyy too dark. It’s depressing.

Loved it, wow. It gives like a post apocaliptic vibe but in a nice way, like the combination of nature and cocrete. Lovely.

Es una casa contraída sobre sí misma. El juego de la luz es demasiado sutil; abrumadoramente oscura. Es de una belleza triste y no invita a vivir en ella. Meditar?, quizás pero también se puede meditar bajo la luz cálida y libre de un lugar más amable. Gracias por compartir.

Seems like it was inspired by the architecture of Arrakis (Dune). I like the low light in the bedrooms as often you only sleep there but personally for me theres not enough natural light being allowed to permeate into the communal areas. I'd have light wells or skylights as i feel I'd be using a lot of electric light despite the fact it looks like a sunny location.

Strong design. The thought going into this built has served it’s purpose.

The mass of the house against the tiny openings gives the building a secure feeling but also slightly imprisoned 😂 😂

Turn the lights on.

@Alainesteph

7 ай бұрын

😂

@dondada7697

7 ай бұрын

😂

@Err_Pammda

7 ай бұрын

So you didn’t understand what the architect said just at the start of the video.

@aydapadistudio

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@1994gn1994

6 ай бұрын

Dude..😂😂

It’s similar to the last place I saw from Morq. I want to stay there but I wouldn’t like to live there. I need to see the sky.

What a depressing building.

MORQ is probably my favourite design firm on the channel. The design philosophy behind each project is so fully fleshed out and intentional, and the execution is simply astounding. The timelessness and tranquility of the design is simply beyond words.

@CourtneyBishopPOA

7 ай бұрын

This design lends transquility!

The Architect used the word ‘refuge’ in describing this project, and perhaps that’s just what his client wanted. Watching the news here in the US that often show homes of the affluent being broken into (through glass doors and windows) makes me aware that this sort of design is both practical and necessary in today's world.

Le case di MORQ sono stupefacenti e spettacolari. Prendono l'architettura contemporanea e la spingono a livelli estremi, soprattutto dal punto di vista filosofico, e della concezione della casa. Non deve essere la vista esterna la protagonista della casa, ma deve essere la casa stessa protagonista. E' una casa che si adatta perfettamente ad un contesto cittadino dove il paesaggio naturale essenzialmente non è presente. Quando entri in casa il mondo lo devi lasciare fuori le mura. Ci sei solo tu, le mura e la luce con i suoi giochi. Non è una abitazione adatta a tutti, è una casa con un carattere estremo, e come tutti gli estremi o la ami o la odi. Il lusso qui oltre che nelle rifiniture si trova nella sua essenza e nella sua contemporaneità. Tra 60 anni questa casa sarà sempre contemporanea. Grazie davvero per portare il genio italiano nel mondo e farci riconoscere anche a 14 mila km da casa! Andrea spero davvero che leggerai questo commento solo per te.

3:56 open and intimate at the same time. this main idea i am plan to design my future huse on

i love this kind of project! So authentic, earthly, straightforward!

i love how they use the light as an art!

I love this design. It totally belongs in a suburban area: giving the family privacy and natural views at the same time.

@juzi68

7 ай бұрын

Stands out like a sore thumb amidst the suburbia. Very little views. But it's a provocative design and invokes the feelings intended by the architect. Melancholy mixed with tranquility and simplicity. Well done.

Bravoo ! C'est merveilleux !

I love the materiality and concrete in general, but in my personal opinion it's way to dark and depressing. A little bit of natural light would really transform this place. From the video it feels too much like prison/cathedral basement/bunker.

@shereenasaifudeen8040

7 ай бұрын

My opinion is same

one of the best houses on this channep

Wow, beautiful

I'm a fan of brutalism, but I'm not a fan of where this was done and who it was for. Maybe for a younger couple outside the neighborhood this would work, but it looks like a building rather than a home compared to everything else around it. Also what happens to the house when the grandparents pass on?

@torilea8104

6 ай бұрын

Seems like they already have that sorted, I cannot see an old couple living here.

Beautiful!

Impeccable.

i love this project.

Too brutal, too dark, too monolithic, and quite frankly too ugly, for me.

As a vampire this feels like a dream 🧛💡🌓

@thandisilec835

6 ай бұрын

😂

Timeless

Amazing Family home

Love love love coitus house

I love this house drive past it often….just not sure of it being very Floreat. More City Beach or North Perth-Highgate.

As architects, we should design for the light

Looks like something Gru would live in from the minions movie.

I can't see any overflows for the box gutters? Madness.

Parece un lugar de reclusión. Debe ser deprimente vivir en esa casa.

Although I love a lot of the material, I love the concrete. I love the shadows. I love the warmth, but this is the most stifling I’ve ever felt watching an inside architectural program. I felt very caved in like the walls were gonna fall on me. I felt like I couldn’t breathe properly when you look outside of the windows or the glass doors you look directly into another building or another building there’s no type of expanse to help you breathe this is terrible, but this darkness is sucking the life out of you. This is very depressing.

Muito linda e moderna.

💚💚💚

BEAUTIFUL OASIS!🎄🎄🎄🎄

EXCELLENT! AMAZING DESIGN . . . ONLY ONE THING, WHERE'S THE GARAGE?

THIS is how you do brutalism. Love it!

Beautiful and cool to live in but I'm over architects who try to kid themselves and the public that mass concrete is sustainable. This could have been made with hempcrete and lime plaster for a truly sustainable long lived building

I would get depressed in this house😢

My wife says "looks like a very clean prison". I agree. Place is depressing as hell.

Interesting example of Brutalism but so much shadow and darkness makes it an almost sinister cave.

Cool design! I like the darkness and, LOVE the woodwork and windows. But the look of bare rammed concrete walls is not for me personally.

❤❤❤

Some good ideas used very badly on such a small lot. Make the footprint at least double, really plant some useable courtyards and the idea might be great for a difficult neighbourhood with no need to look out much. The token cycad already looks battered, it deserved better.

Beautiful home. To me it’s giving movie Atonement vibes but getting fucked in every room on everything. Maybe it’s the darkness and earthiness. I also feel what else would you do in that house.

Interesting house but boy does it look dark and drab with the concrete. Don’t know if I could live in everyday it’s very bleak.

oh my GOD.

ps…. and where is the cloister?

What did he say the concrete is called?

The second song name, please!

Nice Jail 😵‍💫

It is very nice but it’s very dark

Way to dark, but can understand that in very hot climates it makes sense

This house is perfect for for a zombie apocalypse. If you are inside, you are unaware of what's happening outdoors. But it's beautiful though

Cool, but I only see walls

i think contextually this belongs in the desert or in the woods on its own. at first i hated it: it has no context to the surrounding area, i find that to be disrespectful. the concrete is abrasive. the kitchen does not facilitate family gathering i do respect the concept: the materials were thought through for functional purposes, the cave-like aesthetic is where i would like to be for a retreat but i don't know if i'd like every wall to be the concrete.

Did they forget to finish the project? It's giving 'construction site'.

Completely unsympathetic to surrounding vernacular, no?

To each his own I suppose, but reminds me of prison cells I see in movies 😅. Well as long as the dwellers are happy. 😊😊

Interior is gorgeous but the exterior looks like a MORG. 🤭

Why so dark?

absolutely terrible

Some really cool features in this home. However, I feel like they gave zero consideration to the neighborhood and that feels messed up.

bunker

Yeah, NO

😢pity that all we learn in arcitecture gone😂

I can appreciate the aesthetic, but I will feel depressed after a while in a space like this. Sunlight is lacking too much for me to enjoy it. It feels too closed in and out of place, not harmonious at all, but that's my opinion!

бункер на земле жестко но есть своя эстетка

way to dark for me. Really missing the day ight

Yes, amazing design. BUT, the idea of "retreat" seemed to have morphed into "bunker." Like a German WW2 bunker with purge proof walls. Me thinks these folks don't like neighbors.

Dear god...this is like a whole lot of concrete slabs and not much light...what the hell is going on with this place? Im getting anxiety just lookin g at this...have people lost their minds that they think this is a high-end liveable property?

Brutal, oppressive, & nightmarish.

3ven the cat is sad

Great for vampires

Con le vostre scritte non si vede quasi nulla

This house looks like a coffin. Perfect for claustrophobia.

Made for vampires😎

Fuggly

This is a house for a really introvert person…a prison😂😅

I strongly disagree with the principle by which the house was designed. The most sustainable project is not one that does not need to be rebuilt but one that can easily be replaced. A house made not to be lived in, too dark, too much concrete (poor planet) and impractical. It would be better to think more about the people who inhabit the houses and less about the people who look at them.

Hitler's bunker. Can almost hear the Soviets closing in

No

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

From the outside, it looks like a military bunker dropped into a neighborhood. The architects clearly had no respect for the integrity or the neighborhood, nor the neighbors. And the inside looks like a slightly upgraded prison. What a cold, sterile, and unwelcoming house. There’s nothing home about this house. 🤮

Sorry man, that’s not it. I would be pissed if I look out the window and that’s my neighbors house let alone live in that prison . No disrespect, I’m sure you are good at what you are doing, just my honest opinion.