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# dream living
This incredible glass house will be built into a cliff above the Aegean sea
The living quarters are topped with a skylight that turns out to be, in fact, the swimming pool.
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FANCY A HOUSE with a seaview? This one definitely hits the mark.
These images presented by OPA (Open Platform for Architecture) for their new project offer us James Bond and a Ferrari.
Casa Brutale gives us wall-to-wall water and concrete set into cliffs above the Aegean Sea in what OPA promises will be a literally ground-breaking development.
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 and giving you views that could plausibly claim to be 100% water.
With jaw-dropping features like these, OPA chose to keep the rest restrained. Simple, raw concrete surfaces and slabs set off by aged wood and steel form the rest of the project, placing an open living area around the main stairs and a master bedroom on the mezzanine floor, making the incredible water views perfectly visible from the bed, which is also made of cast concrete.
The whole thing is cooled by the landscape and the swimming pool, thanks to the design’s clever twist – aside from the big chunk of rock removed from the cliff, there’s very little impact on the landscape.
An inverted Casa Malaparte — brutalist, plain concrete mixed with water, light and rock — OPA says that their concept “seeks for an investor or an ambitious owner to finance its construction.”
Fill the pool with sharks for extra super villain points, although that might make the view from the bed a little off-putting.
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