The Horizontal House situated in naturally village in Shiga Japan, created by Japanese architects Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno for EASTERN Design Office. This house doesn’t like a house, designed shape of the house traces the boundary of the village. The material are used combine both of stone in exterior wall and wood in the interior. The sequence of the view that the slits cut out and the spaciousness at the entrance, because of the horizontal slits surrounding the whole house there is scenery wherever can see.

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This house built in of about 65 square meters of total floor area by Japanese architects Kimihiko Okada for his architecture firm, Office of Kimihiko Okada. This house is situated on the peaceful village of the gently-sloping ground with a few residences and wood. The wall of the house starts as a site boundary. It draws a continuous spiral and ends as the partition of a central single room, gradually changing its height. The spaces with different functions such as a field, a parking lot and a work place, the …

This is the Rural Japanese Homes designed by Tokyo based Kidosaki Architects. The architects made sure that their constructions possess all the modern amenities, hence why the Villa in Deep Woods — which stands high on a grassy cliff — features natural lighting, proper ventilation and chic interiors as well. Not in line with others, the House in Hanareyama maintains its bucolic purity. Visit Kidosaki Architects website for more information.

Design by Japanese Architects atelier tekuto, Twin-Bricks, consists of two wings – the five rental dwelling units and the owner’s two-family house is located in a quiet residential area, just 20 minutes by train from Tokyo. In order to secure some space for the owner’s car collections, the Owner wing (RC Wing) stands nearer to the road than the Rental wing (S Wing). The Rental wing partly has ALC panels as well as glass blocks.

This building, based on the “Crystal Brick” completed previously, enables these ALC panels, not only …