House on Floating Land – HYE RO HUN by IROJE KIMHYOMAN

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his site is located in borderline between city and mountain. Urban landscape and mountains views could be seen all together. The house entrance is a big transparent gate door with attached to it inner court. Two wooden boxes which are consisted of duplex room are laid on landscaped architectural mass which contain living room and dining room. The one box contains master bed and study room and another box is consisted of two bedrooms and study rooms for two daughters. The living room has double height ceiling which gather a lot of sunlight during the day through the roof. Vertical and horizontal ways fill the house from top to bottom and connect various spaces.

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Futuristic Skew House

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The site is located 10 minutes or less by walk from the nearest station in Toride-city, Ibaraki. Before building there wasn’t any flat surface so architect mission was to build the house on the cliff. Mr. Ueda has managed to build the extraordinary futuristic house in so hard conditions.

The Skew house is a set of a floating light weight flat and a heavy weight anchor volume; the flat is made of steel lines and wood planes; and the anchor is concrete volume. The flat and anchor are connected with very narrow corridor under the ground. Windows are emerging as voids between steel-wood units; which are slits of physical materials.

The interior is nothing but minimalistic. Clear lines and milky white color made the work even though room walls don’t have traditional forms. They have triangle shape that just add extraordinary touch to overall interior impression. Minimalist interior which doesn’t look like other minimalist styled interiors is rare nowadays. [october ueda+nakagawa architects]

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Small Cabin Up The Lake

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Small floating cabins on lakes aren’t a new idea nowadays. It’s a great retrieve place to spend summer and sunny weekends there. What could be better than clean nature and peaceful water around you?

Float cabins are a big part of Coastal British Columbia history. On Powell Lake, float cabins were inexpensive hunting and fishing getaways for paper mill workers. Today things are a little more regulated. Cabins have registered water leases and we pay property taxes.

This small cabinet has his own garden and two floors for living. It has everything needed for the normal living: restroom, kitchen, bedroom and guest room.

Read more about building process and costs on tinyhouseblog

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