Expectation vs. Reality: Kevin McCloud Visits the Risky Brutalist House 2 Years On | Grand Designs
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Deep-sea diver Adrian and wife Megan want to build a concrete, brutalist-inspired family home with hopes of creating the ultimate 21st-century country house.
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Do YOU like Brutalist architecture?
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No it’s ruined our beautiful village
I do.
nope
@@Tdr-jv2nc Villages are medieval - it's the 21st century.
WiFi would be terrible in separate rooms 😂
Mans got a point
Oh snap I didn't think about that
There are cheaper ways to live in prison.
I own a fancy wooden home, and I wish I had a concrete home like this. Wooden homes always feel flimsy, and the sound proof is horrible. Wooden homes are weak.
Morally or financially?
@@batboy3746 did you calculate its design properties or just making an uneducated stupid guess when saying wooden homes are weak?
Ayoooo 🤣
I love this comment 🤣
Really not for me, would be super depressing in the winter months...
Hm. I don't think so. 🤗 it makes me happy
Even in summer months that’s very depressing looking
How about super cold? Do they really have no insulation?
It's super depressing in the summer as well.
@Zachary Laight Probably have under floor heating as well
They use concrete in the middle East but they paint and tile it up which makes it look beautiful, this is too dull
Like the concept, but houses like this need to be finished to impeccable standards for that whole bond villain lair look.
Agreed, the Walls should have been super smooth
I agree. I like the form and concept of this house but I don’t think that finish does it justice. It makes it look like someone just ‘having a go’ and done ‘on the cheap’....which I’m sure it wasn’t!
@@derin111 true comment.
I'd still rather have the inside of a volcano as my villain lair 😁
Concrete is not a 21st century material
It's a modern iteration of concrete with insulation and shit.
@@NoobieToob it's a modern iteration of prison
@@tilez273... with insulation and shit
@@tilez273 You must live on Norway or something, cause in my country no prison looks like that.
@@theviniso Australia
Stunning house but I would invest in a modern landscape architect to really make it stand out. The new plants and surroundings don't really go at the moment.
I agree
agreed
I actually like the juxtaposition of unaltered landscape to brutal structure. It’s imposition on the land is only itself.
If it's good enough for the noble houses from Dune... it's good enough for the rest of us.
I like concrete, but it can get dreary looking in excess.
Paint will do
All one texture, all one colour. Bleh, no thank you.
Nothing ivy can't fix.
so darn agree
@@kenikekenkun734 hell yeh
It looks like a carpark that someone has tried to make a home out of.
Thats exactly right, It's AMAZING isn't it!!
Fair enough, but there are car parks and CAR PARKS.
It really doesn't
Haha. A communist car park, at that.
"Rustic concrete box." Rustic is not how most people would describe that building.
I'd use the word "shit"
@@nickwhittle1440 Thanks. Made me laugh out loud.
They should calculate the CO2 emission on grand designs, and for every kg Kevin gets to whip them with a bamboo cane.
Did they talk in this episode about heating etc? I would have dine the whole thing with underfloor heating fed by a heat pump. All I can see in this clip is a very long (gas-fired?) fireplace in the kitchen.
There is a company in Vancouver, canada that is developing concrete that absorbs CO2 that is a byproduct of another company.
@@scrumpymanjack It was underfloor heating using an air sourced heat pump
That's not weird at all!
This whole concrete and co2 emissions has been debunked.
I’m tired of this negative propaganda.
It looks like after a nuclear war. In my place this is called an unfinished house
I love it. Concrete is one of my favorite architectural materials, particularly the way it looks when it starts to weather into the landscape. But I can understand many people will find it stark or depressing. To me it looks cozy, powerful, protective, and even organic its own way.
Totally agree. It's fantastic.
live a single year in eastern Europe and u will have a different opinion on it's looks
Can't believe you just gentrified concrete
It looks fucking shite
concrete isnt that great carbon wise either tbh
That’s it? That’s all you show us after a long introduction?!
These are short clips from the television programme Grand Designs. Of course they're not going to show you the whole thing.
AMCT 101 I can’t believe there are still programs that insist on staying on cable TV rather than going online.
You can watch them online (www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs (with mandatory adverts)) but they would lose ad revenue if they posted full length clips on youtube.
Looks like a home out of a fictional dystopian society.
I always imagined the entire world of Orwell's 1984 to be mostly in brutalist architecture... Don't know why would anyone do that on purpose, but ok, people have different tastes... Personality, I would rather live in the Addams Family mansion than in a building made completely out of concrete...
@@SalePetrovic87 Brutalism Is the ugly brother of Minimalism, I prefer Deco or Noveau
@@andrewduffin5455 Same, I thought of his flat as being old, almost falling down tenement building, with no thought or care from the government about the people's welfare.
Except it has a pool, 4 bedrooms, and more than double the space of my new build house.
Small details of decorative aluminium or steel through the interior would make the house less depressive. Still wonderful design
Are you giving them a tip?... They don't think it's depressing, they like it
I really enjoy the house, but would have loved to see some cedar panels on the ceiling or some timbers incorporated elsewhere
Bruno Fernandes Zinc would have done the trick.
I drive past this house most days and always wonder how it got planning permission. Although in a fairly rural area, it sits between more traditional cottages and stands out like a multi storey car park.
These toffs know folks in the council.
@@george4vIogging I agree. Planning departments are notoriously corrupt. All planning officers are scumbags.
@@user-yb6tk1ru6x good. If someone buys their own land they should be allowed to build whatever the fuck kind of house they want to build. Jfc
The only planning restrictions on the property were that it had to be single storied! Thus the multitude of sub-level floors ( 7 different levels- but all together not taller than the original building) CLEARLY someone in the planning office made a massive oversight😂
@@thomasquine5593 it looks very much taller than the original structure. Which was a much nicer looking house.
Dangerous levels of copium in that bunker.
"oh the concrete finishers did a shocking job of it"
"well yeah thats how i wanted it to look"
Hes said that to people so many times i thibk hes starting to believe it 😂
How the hell did they manage to get planning permission for this.
Anything is possible with ESCC! 🤣
This is what the inside of normal houses look like for dogs.
No wonder they're so pleased to see you when you get home.
Concrete is a 21st century material? *laughs in Roman*
We use different concrete
This house looks like a serial killer's den...
I like the architecture, but the use of concrete is depressing in the extreme, inside and out. It’s like a Cold War bunker
Its the appeal...I suppose? After all that dread and depression its what brutalism Is all about, thats why its so commonly in media for Dystopian futures or villain lairs
@@hasturthekinginyellow5003 fine for film sets. Awful in houses
I love it, but then I also dream of living in a flat in the Barbican.
I’d like it even more if it was smooth concrete. It’d look less dystopian.
vibrator wasn't' working properly, i guess..
@@izoyt very true, just learned about that in a previous video. The concrete had to be made in a special way and had to be vibrated or you get rough patches and honeycombs
One day we’ll look back on this current concrete fad with the same astonished disdain that we currently look at 70’s council buildings.
One day? More like right now
@@ElssiePlum Are you having a stroke?
I preferred the house that was there before.
I’d beg to differ
God no. That was dog ugly. If people think the precious house fit into the environment more than God forbid.
Could have just moved into an old 'pill box'. Would look nicer and saved the environmental destruction too. Looks cheap, shoddy , and uncomfortable. Good that people are thinking outside the box, shame when they come up with something this ugly on purpose.
I think it's a result of underestimating the detail and budget needed to do it really well, and all the talk of it being intentional feels like post hoc rationalisation to me.
This was a mistake. So ugly.
Yes all the previous houses should be visited . It will make a nice mini TH-cam series .
1. How did they get planning for this build in such a beautiful area? 2. Concrete and recessed rooftop windows in the UK... How did they overcome damp and excess water? Concrete is used in hotter countries and they still suffer damp and leaking...
Lol. No doubt saying that as a person that has no issue driving on motorways through beautiful areas because it’s convenient and parks in huge car parks taking up acres of land.
F*cking awful. How the hell did that get planning permission 🤮
We were saying at the planning department only the other day, we need to ring you to get your permission for total strangers to use their hard earned money to only build houses in accordance with Mr Wade’s tastes.
If this is his understanding of the word honesty I feel sorry for his wife.
Brutalism ages badly everyone knows it
Its kind of its "appeal", after all brutalism Is all about that felling of dread
It’s just an upscaled prison for two.
When their kids friend come over, “so this is a fucking prison then” 😂
Wow, even though the land plot is lovely, how can anyone live in a house where your car has a better bedroom.
It's all fun and games until the concrete cracks
Like living in an underground car park with windows
Sorry Kevin can use all the fancy words in the world, but that thing is hideous. what is it they say about making a silk purse out of a sows ear, well this house is the very embodiment of that old adage. Heaven help them if they ever have to sell this monstrosity, no one in their right mind would buy it. It looks dirty and unkempt, and extremely dreary.
Trying to sell this thing in the future will be a nightmare for them, their kids or whoever inherits this house.
I'm not sure about that. Perhaps they could find a way of selling it that doesn't involve an estate agent. That would reduce the nightmare factor considerably.
It will be a nightmare to tear down too.
Id buy it
Personally, I would purchase something like this, I love this style.
@fotografotimido I would buy it too. not sure why almost everyone has a problem with brutalist architecture. When I get the means I want to build my house like this.
Some people loose their sight some loose their hearing but these people have lost their tastes for houses
Not into it. It's depressing to me.
I do believe this might be the ugliest, most oppressive house I’ve ever seen.
It doesn't look like a home, though from the back, I don't think it looks too bad.
@@jimjam6598 It doesn't look too bad for a parking garage, although it could be better. But for a building human beings are supposed to use, let alone live in... it's claustrophobic, ugly, depressing, and painful to look at.
@@junbh2 each to their own I suppose. Personally I like it 😁
If you try and nail something to the wall you’ll make the whole house collapse or you’ll just chip a whole through the wall
I was just thinking how easy it’d be to put up shelves, tv brackets and any other fixings. Done have to worry about plasterboard, dot n dab, or hitting mortar.
There are drill bits for concrete.
Witness it after a few years, with groceries stuck on the wall. It would look amazing
That is hilariously awful and anyone who says they like it is lying. 🤣
I want to know how they got on with a downward fall from the garage to the lounge/playroom. It's a waterfall/pond feature for invisible, toxic exhaust fumes.
Planning council “The style is Zombie Apocalypse? …..okay….”
Owners build concrete bunker.
I could not live in a place like that, even if gifted to me. Is bad neough to look at from the outside, but to have the inside unfinished and just as raw like the outside, gives it a cold, hostile feeling
“Everything is chunkier and here forever.” Hahaha
Yeah, because experimental concrete never let us down before
Sounds like he is just being polite because he doesn't really like it.
God no. Hideous.
If you like buildings like this you should see ex-Yu and ex-Soviet countries buildings
I hate this house since it was shown by Kevin for the first time.
I saw this episode, I was surprised by the outcome , and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be
2:02 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I havent seen you is sooo long. I think I watched every single one of your episodes where you go around the UK watching people build their dream homes over spans of YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That looks awful but ok I guess
I get what he was going for and good job 👍but good God ! smooth out and paint the interior it's so cold looking. there's no way his wife is 100% on board with the interior🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
3:35 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I havent seen you is sooo long. I think I watched every single one of your episodes where you go around the UK watching people build their dream homes over spans of YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I wear glasses now too; I did not used to---I hate it
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You can just tell that bloke is the kind of person you'd hate to get stuck talking to at a party
he is too smart for you
Concrete - Using one of the most damaging building materials. Very modern.
Looks hideous
Pretty awesome I'd say. I would have to get heated floors though can't imagine winter being very pleasant otherwise.
its shorter n smaller than i thought.
Looks like a prison
This was up there as one of the worst things Iv seen, they were both kidding themselves, it's aweful
That man with a low entry Rolex with no taste, keep saying I want this me me me. Cringe the hell out of me.
Looks horrendous
I would paint the concrete and have some more windows, but i’m in love with everything else😍
Just wait till they try and wall mount anything
No more nails ftw!
why does he think concrete is 21st century when it was literally used by the ancient romans
There it is. The project i would never ever spend one single dime for. If thats your 21st century i willingly step back. Like all the scifi dystopias
I can honestly say I hate this house, but it's not mine nor do I have to live in it
The outside would look so much better with some cladding or something
The kids will probably get bruises daily
not my cup of tea too BRUTAL n PRISON like
I love concrete, if i could make everything out of concrete i would but this is not the way of doing it. It just looks ugly and disorganized compared to what it could have been, a perfectly geometric cube with perfectly centred doors and windows of equal size.
This makes me think of: zombie apocalypse, family find abandoned nuclear bunker and try to make it feel like a family home. Everything goes well until the zombies get in.
It looks like a home from a dystopian society.
That's way to much concrete for me. I like houses with a natural style. A mixture between stone and wood is nice
Very inspired by Tadao Ando
It’s... awful. Cold looking.
This is a potential Minecraft House
That is miserable looking
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It has the inviting cosy charm of Guantanamo Bay...
It's not healthy to live in house made of concrete
i somewhat like the outside, just not the landscape - But the inside is really not for me, it doesn't feel like a home imo. But luckily architecture is subjective
I cannot imagine how much it would cost to heat
imagine half way through 2020 and its till not finished
I like a lot of brutalist architecture. I was, for example, a fan of Birmingham library. However, this building is depressing.
The outside is too much the fortress, and the bits where the pour went wrong, that they claim is honesty in the structure, simply look like mistakes rather than a conscious decision. If they were conscious decisions, then their insignificance in the over all scheme show a lack of confidence. Either way they make the structure look unfinished rather than a confident statement.
Internally, the building suffers from a lack of light, what enters is sucked up by the concrete. I imagine that in the winter it must be quite depressing. Such cave like structures can work in countries with an abundance of sunlight, but cloudy UK needs to use the structural strength of the concrete to allow huge windows to flood the interior with light. As it is I think that regardless of the temperature, my brain would be telling me it was chilly.
Each to their own. Much of this has merit, but I think I would find it like a mausoleum living there. If it suits them, fine, but it was interesting there was no spare room, did they expect no one would want to stay?
For some weird reason I really dig the place
Even though it's devoid of colour and Windows.
Such a dreary and lugubrious house. Depressive.
Might have worked if they had the money for a high end interior, fixtures and furniture but when what is inside is cobbled together and on a budget it hurts the whole idea. I guess they can slowly add those things over the coming years.
under a bridge vibes
Disgusting.
Paint it.
When there's a noise you'll still be listening to the echoes 5 minutes later!
As someone that lives in a newer apartment with solid concrete walls between each, nope. Now if we are talking wooden floors......
I don't know man. Concrete just doesn't please my eye dudes. Especially this type of concrete..