Minimalist White House by Koichi Kimura

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FORM / Koichi Kimura Architects designed this “House of Diffusion” residence in Shiga, Japan. The company specialize in minimalist house design and most houses designed by them are painted in one color outside. Their other work was minimalist brown house while this one is white. The house structure is simple but thought-out. Its windows are positioned to afford views of the nearby hills but protect privacy from neighborhood. The interior of the house is a combination of clean white lines and walls with black or natural wood insertions. Everything looks quite minimalist but without losing in comfortability. [Form/Kouichi Kimura]

Photos by Takumi Ota

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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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