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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Clean & Minimalist Openhouse on Hollywood Hills

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Clean Minimalistic Openhouse

The Openhouse was designed by XTEN Architecture. It is embedded into a narrow and sharply sloping lot in the Hollywood Hills. The house looks both integrated into the landscape and open to the city below. Retaining walls are configured to extend the first level living area into the landscape and to create garden terraces on the second level. The front, side and rear facades of the house slide away, opening the interiors to gardens, views and the hillside landscape.

Glass, in various renditions, is the primary wall enclosure material. There are forty-four sliding glass panels designed to disappear into hidden pockets and allow for uninterrupted views and access to exterior terraces and gardens. There are also fixed glass walls, mirror glass walls, and light gray mirror glass panels which lend lightness to the interior spaces.

The glass walls are visually counter weighted by sculptural, solid elements in the house rendered in stone, dark stained oak and plaster. The use of quartz flooring throughout the house, decks and terraces continues the indoor-outdoor materiality. Building finishes are few in number but applied in a multiplicity of ways throughout the project, furthering the experience of continuous open space from interior to exterior. With all the glass walls completely open the house becomes a platform, open to hillside gardens and cinematic views over Los Angeles.

Openhouse Side view

Openhouse View

Openhouse Interior

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Nested House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects

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Nowadays, there are many great minimalistic house design projects in Japan. I already showed some really nice works by Makoto Yamaguchi Design. If you thought that Todoroki House and house in Komae was cleanly white than you definitely haven’t seen House N project by Sou Fujimato. It situated in Oita, Japan and almost everything inside and outside is milky white.

House N is a house for two plus a dog and have a 3 shells one inside another one. Although the house’ space is 150 sqm and it looks very unsecured from the outside that all very illusory. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space. Third shell creates a smaller interior space. So as a result, living area is quite small but covered from strangers looks.

House N Japan

House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects

Nested House

House N From The Inside

House N Interior

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Minimalist House in Minami Boso

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Minimalist house in Minami Boso

This great minimalistic house is located in Minami Boso, Chiba. Although it takes only about less than 2 hrs drive from Downtown Tokyo, the site has a beautiful view of the pacific ocean and mountains. The villa was designed for the clients who live in Tokyo. Like many other modern Japanese house designs it has very clear lines and simple forms. Its main concept to maximize visibility of surrounding beauty of landscape an ocean. In order to achieve that, Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect and Associates, who designed the house, made big windows on all house sides.

Minami-Boso Minimalist House Outside View

Minimalist House Bath with View

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S House by Grosfeld van der Velde Architects

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S House by Grosfeld van der Velde Architects

Dutch architects from Grosfeld Van der Velde Architecten designed and build this house on the edge of the Asterdplas in the Hague district meadows in Breda. It has very simple box-a-like form but it’s made to fit the landscape without changing it. Thanks to that, large protruded windows, and big terraces the house have a very interesting and minimalistic look. With such form and windows it also is very transparent and people who live there will always have a great view to nature and lake outside.

S House Interior

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Ultra Minimalistic House from Japan

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This ultra-minimalist house was designed and build in 2007 in Komae, Japan by architects Makoto Yamaguchi Design. It shows that simplicity is a beauty better than many other house designs. Clean lines with a crisp milky color is everything this house about. Cube shape and few floor to ceiling windows from the outside, what can be more minimal?

Everything that could be are white inside the house. Light additions of wood and black-brown things can’t break the mood.

Minimalist House Interior In Japan

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