2010 House RA - modern house In current

House of inclusion designed by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, located in Shiga, Japan.

Here’s some text from the architect:
This house, located in a new residential area, is for a 30-something couple. Surrounded by other houses, the design goal was set up to block out the outside world while avoiding too much closure, as well as to provide rich and sensuous spaces.

First, a small patio and a path connected to it were laid out between the living or dining room and exterior. They are surrounded by a wall that blocks off the line of sight from outside. Planting and pond are laid out at the patio, so that the picturesque images of green and water are viewed from the rooms.
Enclosed by walls that create indirect light filling softly the entire room, the house presents sentimental scenes here and there. The living spaces and the life lived there are enveloped by green and light, creating an affectionate environment.

Architects: FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects
Location: Shiga, Japan
Client: Private
Construction Year: 2009
Site Area: 215,35m2
Constructed Area: 151,71m2
Photographs: Takumi Ot

Japan Modern Architecture 2010

Japan Modern Architecture designed by Nakayama Architects, located in Sapporo, Japan.With the objective to make the most of every inch, the house architecture is a simple box, but that’s as far as simplicity goes in this elaborate design. From the weathered, rust-colored exterior to the artistic interiors, the home’s mature presence makes its way indoors through carefully contemplated finishes. Unassuming perforated walls cast a spectacular sun-lit pattern reminiscent of detailed delicate filigree work.

Exposed beams stretch from wall to wall, while a wonderful staircase makes its way from level to level. This ambitious architecture aimed to create true privacy for residents, and as a result the architects planned the house so as to maximize the area between private and public living spaces. The result is a floor plan that puts the two bedrooms and bathroom on one level, and the living room, dining room, kitchen and workroom on another.

Yakisugi House - Japanese Modern House Design

Yakisugi House designed by Terunobu Fujimori architect, located in Nagano, Japan.

The unique Yakisugi House in Nagano, Japan, blends modern design innovation with traditional Japanese architecture and a French inspiration, for a truly one-of-a-kind house design. For Yakisugi House, the inspiration came from the compact cave dwellings near the Caves of Lascaux in France. This unusual residential design comes clad in charred cedar boards, and surrounded by 1,825m2 of landscaped property, sculptural plants and a spring-fed stream.

Glass Home Hangs - Japanese Modern Home Design

Like a bird nest, Japanese Glass home designed by TNA Architects.

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.

Casa Wakasa Modern House 2010 by wHY Architecture

Casa Wakasa, home to a young family of four is located in the suburbs of Osaka, Japan. The house attempts to be both a reflection into contemporary Japan’s family life (sense of family vs. privacy) as well as a solution to balance individual freedom and space with collective activities and time.

The house design gives emphasis and space to the glass-sided living room, surrounded by open gardens. The father who works as a dentist from 9AM to 9PM everyday wants to have a place in his own house that at the end of the day he could withdraw even from his family, his wife and two young daughters, to pursue the subjects of his personal interest – music, films and books. The family has meals and activities together in the family living and dining room but each one of them could withdraw into their own world in their own room / garden. via archdaily

W-Window House Design 2010

The Alphaville architects Kentaro Takeguchi and Asako Yamamoto designed and built their own house W-Window House in Kyoto. In terms of spatial organization in such a small site and also how the architects twisted the plan that maximizing the natural lighting into the interior spaces.

Statement from Alphaville :
A small house on the small site. Surrounded by the heterogeneous buildings, it was impossible to gain enough open space, and we tried to catch various information from outside, through all border.

We put two triangular yards at north-east and south-west boundary point-symmetrically, to make face all the windows onto these yards, and it allows the interior space to have two long vertical openings which can be sensed from everywhere, owing to skipped floors.

Thus we designed the very simple and universal form, which can be put to any other site. However it does not mean that it is homogeneous. The sunlight shifting form east to west, the wind blow through from the first floor to the third floor and all the noise from outside, all the discontinuous context will be transformed by simple architecture into diverse information; we re-territorized universal space for diversification over the context.