SoHo Architektur has designed a concrete house in Bavaria, Germany, with an unfinished facade and a cantilevered upper storey.
Called UF Haus ? an abbreviation of unfinished ? all the materials used for the project were left in their raw state.

Split across three levels including a basement storey, the house and accompanying garage are placed centrally on its plot.
The upper level of the house is cantilevered over the ground floor supported by an acute V-shaped steel beam. Below, a wall of glazed sliding doors opens out to a patio.

The exterior and interior walls are made of unclad concrete with a smooth surface.
Inside the house timber accents create a warm contrast to the mostly concrete interior.

Wooden shelving units in the ground floor library double as partition walls, which the studio extends to clad one concrete wall of the living space nearby. The architects used only three materials throughout the house as a rejection of what they see as a current trend for over-complication in design

Cofounder of SoHo Architektur Alexander Nägele said the decision to use a limited material palette was also made to support traditional craftsman, which are declining in number in the country.

"In Germany, building development is based more on the assembly of industrially produced semi-finished parts rather than craftsmanship," Nägele told Dezeen.

The neighbourhood's strict building regulations also informed the design.
Located in a neighbourhood of single-family ho...