This apartment, named House H, is set within a residential block in Taipei’s Shilin district and is occupied by a family of four. The neglected basement of this dwelling has been overhauled by KC Design Studio to feature a series of greyscale rooms and an indoor courtyard. The studio decided to carve several openings into...
Machiya House Gets Renovated In Minimalist Style
Kooo Architects has renovated a Machiya house in Kyoto, Japan, with white-hued spaces that update its interior appearance while maintaining its historical value. A Machiya is a type of traditional Japanese house where the two side walls do not have windows because they are shared with the neighboring building. Such an interior tends to be...
Minimalist House With A Black Exterior And White Interiors
The owners of this South Yarra Townhouse built in 1990s had come to dislike its visually busy interiors and instead wanted a minimalist home where they wouldn’t see the operations of domestic family life. They asked Winter Architecture to renovate it. The house features a black façade and simple, white-painted living spaces. The studio set...
Minimalist Yurikago House With Multiple Levels
Architecture studio Mas-aqui has transformed an apartment in Barcelona into a multi-level home lined with wood and ceramic tiles. The half levels were used to create more space on the upper storey and to start using a previously unused lower level. The project is called Yurikago House after the Japanese word for a cradle. The...
Minimalist Home With Foundations At Three Different Heights
Architecture studios SNARK and OUVI have built House in Saishikada, a wooden dwelling topped with a pitched roof in a suburban area of Midori City, Japan. Located in the middle of a high hill, on a flat site three meters above the front road, the rectangular residence overlooks the surrounding rural scenery. Inside, the house...
Black Barn-Inspired Minimalist House In The Netherlands
On the outskirts of a Dutch village, studio AAAN’s House Zevenhuizen is designed as a modern home that fits into a rural environment. The sculptural black form of the recent intervention makes a strong visual impact on the patchwork landscape of greenhouses, farmlands and traditional dwellings. The simple form of the house makes it seem...
Small Wooden House With An Acrylic Gridded Curtain
Working in collaboration with ENJOYWORKS, ERI SUMITOMO ARCHITECTS designed a small wooden House in Hayama, Japan in an area surrounded by rich greenery. The minimalist facade clad in vertical wood boards disguises an intriguing interior that features a curved ‘curtain’ made of acrylic panels and hemlock grids that add a slight division between the public...
Colorful Minimalist Apartment Inspired By Mondrian’s Artworks
Rustem Urazmetov has completed his residential interior design project Mondrian, in Moscow, Russia. The architect has applied a non-standard interior color scheme, in an attempt to express the individuality of the owners through bright colors and minimalist shapes. The open-plan apartment by Rustem Urazmetov was designed for a young couple with a child. The living...
Contrasting Minimalist Home In The Lush Vegetation
Ridge Road Residence’s minimal blackened timber facade is tucked away behind a layer of thick Australian vegetation, making it almost invisible upon first glance. Melbourne-based architecture practice studiofour designed the home with this camouflage element in mind, hoping to take a gentle architectural approach that respects the site’s distinctive landscape. The site is placed on...
Whidbey Farm: A Nature Retreat For A Large Family
Tucked into the edge of a densely forested hillside on Whidbey Island, this home to a mix of artists, craftspeople, farmers, and sea captains, Whidbey Farm was conceived as a nature retreat for a multi-generational family Seattle studio mwworks have taken advantage of its scenic location to immerse the house into the landscape in a...