Ultra Modern House in Japan - Unique Multi-Window House

Located in Oita, Japan, the unique House N design by Japan’s own Sou Fujimoto Architects is modern to the nth degree. Like a Russian doll, this ultra contemporary residence is comprised of three shells of graduated size, and layered to create a nested effect. The exterior shell encompasses the entire house and grounds, with a series of windows opening to the outside and to the sky. The second skin of the house further encloses the interior outdoor areas. The third shell houses the residence in the traditional sense of the word, with room for two and a dog. The trio of walls creates an enhanced sense of privacy from the street, while the unique and multiple windows maintain a relationship between indoors and out by allowing plenty of natural light and ventilation.

Japanese Home Design – a glass home hangs on a steep slope like a bird nest, not for the faint of heart!

Like a bird nest, this cool Japanese home by TNA Architects isn’t for the shy. Providing as equally an impressive view of the outside as of the inside, this amazing house is enclosed in a perimeter of windows nestled on a steep slope among the Karuizawa, with almost no support beneath it – looks like this bold, modern design isn’t for the faint of heart either! The projected architecture is made possible by the home’s steel frame, which is secured to the ground on one side. The contemporary, curved weekend house reaches off the hillside and around the trees, connecting to the other side. Inside, the house takes shape as an elongated floor plan, where one area of the home opens onto the other, separated by walls of glass. Apart from glass, the main material of choice for both the interior and exterior is wood. And true to this Japanese architect’s signature style, interiors are furnished with a minimal, modern edge.

Small Japanese Houses - traditional Minka house in Ibara

As for traditional Japanese houses, the concept of Minka is followed in this small house design but only in respect to simplicity of the living space. A more modern and spacious version of the common Minka is introduced here by architect Kazunori Fujimoto. Built in 2008 in Ibara, Okayama prefecture, Japan for a young couple who chose to leave overpopulated downtown for a simple farm life and to be closer to nature, this house is "a trial which aims at fusion of traditional farm village scenery and a modern life." As shown on these images, the house architecture is clearly split between two spaces: an enclosed concrete box and an open glass area under concrete roof. The box contains two bedrooms and a bathroom. Under the roof, there are entry, kitchen and a living room that extends into an outdoor terrace. To allow for a more flexible lifestyle in such a small house (only 78.5 square meters), the two spaces can be connected by keeping sliding doors in the bedrooms open. While the concrete box-space is designed for privacy and to limit the sunshine the roof-space is always open to nature and sunlight. Zelkova trees planted in the yard add a finishing touch to this design by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates

Japanese House Design – three-wall design houses 24 sound proof rooms!

Inhabited by a professional pianist based in Tokyo, innovative architects Yasuhiro Yamashita and Takada Masahiko of renowned Japanese architecture firm Atelier Tekuto have made some beautiful music of their own in the form of this inspired house design. Dubbed Music House, this modern home boasts a unique three-wall design resulting in a triangular footprint. A balustrade terrace with aluminum louvers provides shade while creating a balanced facade. The home’s uniquely angled roofline translates into unusually shaped rooms inside – 24 in total, spread throughout the home’s three storeys. On special request, each room is suitable for practicing music, thanks to high-performance acoustical enhancements and sound proofing incorporated into the design. Apart from their function, interiors are contemporary, yet classic, featuring the industrial look of cool concrete against a rich, natural backdrop of wood and windows.

Pyramid Architecture in Japan

This residential pyramid architecture in Hiroshima is as innovative inside as its facade would lead you to believe. Designed by Japanese architecture firm Suppose, this pyramidal design is almost whimsical, with a dark, dramatic aura – quite the contrast to the traditional village-style homes in the area. Starting from the front entrance – a step down, rather than the predictable step up – leads you into a sunken main floor; a concrete space encircled by windows and topped with the rest of the stilt home. As you make your way up through the big, bold black structure, a staircase takes you from floor to floor through an open well, topped by a skylight that floods every floor with natural light. Surrounding the open central stairway, each floor plan works its way around and offers a view of every other floor. Now, that’s what we call an "open concept" house plan!

Modern Japanese Home - Skinny House by Shuhei Endo

This modern Japanese home by Shuhei Endo Architects is a most unusual house that tackles the obstacle of slopes as much as it does the ambition of style. The home location – an old town (Shioya Tarumi-ku Kobe, Hyogo-Pref., Japan) at the foot of a hill, and overlooking the Inland Sea. Due to the grade of the land, the town was developed in a series of steps, making their way up the hillside. The house stretches 20 meters east and west, an ample number, considering the home’s curious width: ranging from four meters deep in some parts, down to a slim 1.5 meters. Utilizing the natural stone retaining wall and the shape of the existing terrain, the architects added artificial ground, upheld by five piles. A roof and walls enclose this two-storey space. Wrapping the structure is a roof/wall constructed of metal shingle board. Large windows throughout the outward-facing wall ensure the home residents – a young couple – are never more than a couple of feet from a great view.

Small Japanese House Design in Tokyo by Architect Yasuhiro Yamashita

This is the great small Japanese houses interior design. With the natural wood floor designs, although this house that basically has the small size, but irregularly shaped lot. Depending on view point as seen as the picture, this is the contemporary and elegant Japanese house because from the shape it looks like a bulky camper van about to take off. Aware that the site is too small and the wrong way from home, the giant stuffed the house right on the site by force. The fantasy of this beautiful residence is a large part of its charm. At the same time, the house is also an elegant expression of modern Japanese minimalism, and an example of brilliant use of a small site, a requirement in the limited space in central Tokyo architecture. It seems to be the result of giant’s frustrated attempt to fashion a house from a square box, what a rare design! Do you interest with small modern Japanese house design? Take a look at these photos! Atelier Tekuto

Perspective Freehand Style of Home Design in Japan

Japan is a modern country as well as a traditional country, as the No. 2 economy great power in the world, Japan has created a economy miracle, who has a lofty level of modernization, while whose land area is just as small as one of Chinese provinces…

In recent years throughout Japan there raised a hot trend of home reconstruction, which is in the ascendant still.

In order to pursue a more comfortable and convenient living environment, in virtue of home design, Japanese try to take full advantages of spaces and setting modern appliances, furniture in their current narrow residential space.

In past time the demand rank of life in most Japan families was arranged according to food, clothing, transportation and living, now that has shifted to a new order as living first, transportation next, then clothing, and food last, which put the improvement of home living conditions to the first place.

Now in Japan, the space features and design ideas they pursued has following specific performances. ..

1. Purified, Abstract Design Style
--- to make the decoration style attain to a beauty purification realm
Famous post-modern architect Hans Hollein had been engaged in a lot of architectural designs and interior design works, whose work has broken traditional frame and very different from modernist architectural designs. His designs mainly used symbols, metaphor techniques, and applied to modern technique materials and combined with special colors and patterns, thus to create a purified particular ideal environment.
Hans Hollein’s design has put a considerable influence on the world, as extended to his design idea, many Japanese designers follows a step forward, they applied with implied functions and the same time emphasis on the simplicity and abstractness of design, they applied with geometric form elements and managed interlaced arrays of simple lines and surfaces to avoid pop out of objects and shapes, and try best to eliminate all excessive marks; they also adopted the restrained method of removing detailed decorations to embody the essence of space, and make the room space take on concise and lively modern effect.

Nordic think design is an integral part of their lives, Americans keep it as a money-making means, while Japanese believe that design is a important way for national survival….

Contemporary Minimalist Interior Design Japanese Style

When you want to decor your house with Asian house styles, may be this sample photos of contemporary minimalist interior design with Japanese style can be perfect ideas for your home design ideas. Almost of Japanese house design using white and black color scheme interior design. In several living rooms there are futons positioned on the floor at nighttime, next folded up through the daylight and stored away that lets for more house living space area. This goes beside the Japanese house design idea of stability and harmony, in that one illustration of a texture, bold color schemes, or fabric is sufficient to symbolize it and enhancement it deceives its result. This is sample Japanese house design photos may be you want to see.





Freehand Style of Home Design in Japan

Japan is a country and a modern, stylish, traditional, low-tone … in Tokyo, high-rise buildings and modern stylish design would be a dazzling and high-tech means of very advanced, highly developed, but if some Japanese into the ordinary family, is their food, living room, and daily necessities are still very traditional, especially in Kyoto, few high-rise buildings, most of the buildings in the lives of traditional houses is low, which is a tatami, Japanese are accustomed to sleeping on the floor sitting , this is a more traditional way of life in Japan. In the past, living in Japan, the application of most households organized a series of sub-prime mortgage food, clothing, transportation and life, and now it has moved to a new order of life first, and transportation to, and then clothing and food, which the improvement of living conditions, the first place. Which was built in the most serious of war, Japan has begun to personnel training in the technical quality and attached great importance to the rapid development of Japan has laid a solid foundation for the future.

At present, the space and the Japanese origin of the characteristics of the design philosophy is to build the following:
1. More purified and abstract design and implementation of a more pure America …
2. Appreciation for natural materials to provoke and emotional attraction, and return to the original NaturalThink the surface, when many physical transformation of a space for creation, as well as common materials, texture stress to break the framework of the functions in relation to their own. Concrete pavement repairs, such as aluminum, steel and other man-made stone composed of wood grain of the metal plates, metal plates, mosaic discovery and courage to change. To display the material or its original form, in particular, more precise polishing, texture, so that the surface material is a complete machining of modern technology, the quality of shows from the camera head, or as their own pictures In addition, from a color filter, a visual effects of materials application specific methods.

This filter is a leading fresh, mild surface, this may affect people’s emotional space visual impact of the type of people live in the city can get some saved their emotions may be nostalgia, nostalgic, and return to nature. In the design of form and abstraction, in the texture are most concerned about is bound to reach an unprecedented level, and modern technology the process of purification, but also for the excellent growth conditions. Now, create new texture effects, the impact of people’s response has become the texture, especially in the modern house designers have done deliberately side of psychological impact.