Japanese is always create a cool architectural design, because of the land is very expensive here the Japanese architect must be able to create a comfortable building in the minimal space. The House Uc is a one of minimalist Japanese house that was built in the narrow space, designed by Miyahara Architect office this private house located in residential area of Tokyo, the house has irregular shape because of the small and narrow site. The site measures approximately 57 m2 in size: approximately 12 meters deep, 6 meters across where it faces the north road, and 2.7 meters across at the deepest end (building area 90.60m2 and Building height 8.8m). The design for House Uc therefore needed to focus on the ideal form of an urban detached house within the constraints of the site itself as well as laws and regulations. For more detail about this house let’s see the floorplan and section after the jump. Visit Miyahara Architect Office website for more information.

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Nana Han the Japanese house designed by Shu Arc, is a house with a very simple minimalist design both of the exterior and exterior design. The house exterior painted in white and it just have a one entrance door. Nana is means “7” and Han means “half” in Japanese. The house built in the 7.5 tsubo areas (246.5 in square feet). Nana Han was designed to accommodate the homeowner and his motorcycle.

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MC House is a minimalist Japanese house designed by Ikuyo Nakama, it’s a stylish town house with a nice little atrium courtyard. The house was made using typical Japanese balance materials, combined the hard (concrete) and the soft (wood) could perfectly meet in a precise contrast. The 1st floor stairs design looking so delicious it has a good graphic quality and detailed woodwork. Visit Ikuyo Nakama website here.

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The young couple with their three children asked Suppose Design Office to create the unique dwelling design, in which the open public part would preserve privacy. The house was built in 260m2 site area, and the exterior was inspired by earliest house in Japanese Architecture called “tateana jukyo” in Yayoi era (200 B.C – 250 A.D). The house is very unique and totally different than their neighbor house. For more detail about this house you can read the description from the architects below, and you see the house floor-plan here.

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Nakadai house is the 2 stories house design by Kiyonobu Nakagame & Midori Omori Architect, the house was built in 95.92 square meters area and total floor area was 162.94 sqm. Here’s the description from the architect:

The site sits along the hill where view opens up to the east. Although wood structure was applied, we achieved to structurally support the house only with outside walls enabling to create the large interior space without being obstructed by any columns or partitions.

The floors were covered with aluminum panels. Unlike the typical image of metal being cold and hard, the aluminum panels gently reflect the sunlight providing the warm and soft interior spaces.

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