raw concrete
Bare cement surface
Raw concrete is concrete left exposed and unfinished, showing its natural gray surface, texture, and sometimes the marks of formwork used during pouring.
The term appears in architecture and interior design, where raw concrete walls or floors serve as deliberate aesthetic choices rather than surfaces awaiting treatment: The loft featured raw concrete floors and exposed ductwork.
The style is associated with brutalist architecture and industrial minimalism.
- brutalistAdherent of severity
- cementCalcium powder binding agent
- greyNeutral achromatic tone
- industrialOf factories and production
- industrial chicDesign aesthetic featuring exposed materials
unfinished · texture · formwork · aggregate · exposed · urban · cold · hard · slab · poured · curing · modernist · gritty · stark · bunker · parking garage · rough · monolithic
- Brutalismbrutalist, monolithic, National Theatre, functionalism, functionalist
- Le Corbusieropen plan, roof garden, free plan, brise-soleil, purism
- avant-gardeDada, Dadaism, Futurism, Constructivism, Cabaret Voltaire
- avant-garde architecturedeconstructivism, brutalism, futurism, experimental design, geodesic domes
raw concretepolished marble
Smoothed decorite rock surface
dressed stone · glazed tile · terrazzo · inlaid wood · lacquered wood
raw concretenatural wood
Unprocessed timber material
woven fabric · natural stone · brick · terracotta · cork
rawness, rawer, rawest, concrete, concreted, concreting, concretely, concreteness, concretion