Japanese Minimalist Townhouse Design by Ikuyo Nakama

Mc House is a new japanese townhouse design that was done in minimalist way by Japanese based architect, Ikuyo Nakama. The house has successfully combined both hard and soft materials reflected to its hard concrete building structure and soft wooden flooring installation. This house features a nice little atrium courtyard and minimalist townhouse living room which was done using wooden furniture materials and simple floor lamp.

If you are the minimalist home design lovers, then this best sample of japanese minimalist townhouse design could be your nice inspiration. Check out this photos of this japanese townhouse with its minimalist interior design after the jump..

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Micro House Japan Floor Plan

This japanese micro house plan is the The Showa-cho House located in Osaka, Japan in small limited space on 59 x 13 foot lot. Designed by Architect Fujiwara Muro, this micro house japan floor plan divides the area in public space and private space without using wall, the architects create a great solution in making a space transition between those private and public space by splitting the house in half with minimalist staircase.

This japanese micro house facade was created in transparent way using glass wall to floods the interior with natural daylight lighting in a simple modern interior touch. Set in a tightly-planned neighborhood in Osaka, the home makes the most of a limited lot. The face of the home is a fully glazed to maximize daylighting, and it’s set deep into the lot for privacy and to control heat gain in the summer.

The living space has two-story floor-to-ceiling windows, which makes the limited floor area seem much more generous. The centerpiece of the home is an elegantly ascending open staircase. The layout provides central access to the verticality of the floor plan but still allows for view corridors from front to back — a smart strategy to keep the home from feeling claustrophobic.

The home’s vertical program balances public and private spaces while providing the interior spaces with plenty of natural light. Centrally-located skylights work with the home’s open, airy floor plan to allow daylight to penetrate down to the bottom floor. The kitchen and dining area is a sublime integrated space that is enhanced by contrasting finishes. The bath features a full-height mirror that enhances its visual size and functionality. The sink and counter seem to hover in the middle of the space as a result.

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House H Tokyo by Sou Fujimoto Architects

This white modern concrete box shaped house design is the latest residential architecture project created by japanese architects, Sou Fujimoto Architects. This Minimalist House H in Tokyo, Japan is a complex responses to contemporary needs that combines a balance between volumes, spaces and light.

Dealing innovatively with Japan’s strict plot ratio regulations, Fujimoto has avoided the conventions of creating a courtyard or of setting a house as an isolated object within the site boundary. Instead it is a hybrid; a series of boxes in boxes that define domestic realm, enclosure and interior.

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Wall Less House Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan by Tezuka Architects

This Wall Less House was designed and build by Tezuka Architects. This modern minimalist japanese house design is located in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan with 255.19m2 site area and 239.91m2 total floor area. The great lighting design of this japanese residential design was designed by Masahide Kakudate (Masahide Kakudate Lighting Architect & Associates, Inc.)



The Wall Less House Japan is supported by a central core and a pair of extremely thin columns. The absence of walls on the ground floor allows the internal space to extend to the garden on 360 degrees. The house stories consists of basement area and 3 floors. Construction project was done by Matsumoto Corporation and the construction period takes 8 month from start to finish ( April 2000 - December 2000 ).

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House in Ibara, Japan by Kazunori Fujimoto Architects

A concrete small house designed by japanese architects kazunori fujimoto architects located in ibara, japan for a young couple who left the city and live in this new natural rich farm village. they sought a simple home that contrasted the bustling activity of the city. the home has two bedrooms and a bathroom in its ‘box space’ and living dining room and kitchen in its ‘roof space’.



The roof space is open concept and covered in glass wall on all but one side where it is connected to the box space. this space is enclosed mostly with some windows for light. the building is constructed from cast concrete and has just over 100m of floor space.



The ground floor is space like the one-room of 78.5 square meters. In order to articulate this small space more attractively, box-space and roof-space are connected carefully. If the sliding door of a bedroom is opened, all the rooms serve as one room space, and two spaces are gently connected with the level difference reflecting a site slope.



The box-space sets so that the sunshine and the privacy from the outside may be interrupted, and roof-space is allotted in the direction which faces nature. A parking lot is buried in a site slope by a half , located at the mountain side. Zelkova trees are planted in the yard so that sunbeams shining through branches of trees may be dropped on a house.



Architect: Kazunori Fujimoto - Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
Location: Ibara, Okayama, Japan
Main use: house
Site area: 1150m2
Building area: 85.38m2
Total floor area: 102.05m2
Design term: 2006-07
Construction term: 2007-08

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The Silent house, Japan byTakao Shiotsuka Atelier

Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Saiki-city, Oita, Japan
Client: Private
Project year: 2008
Constructed area: 81.94 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,)

The cottage in the silent village between mountains. We wished to make the silence a space. It seemed to me that the concrete block is a silent material compared with concrete. Silence is made by the thing being alive It becomes coldness if there is no breath of a life there.






















The block fit this place nicely. There are no fittings in the opening of the outside wall. Brock was just merely stacked, and the hole was merely vacant there. Quiet scenery exists.

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Minimalist Japanese Garden Sea House by Takao Shiotsuka

This clean white super modern minimalist home was designed by Takao Shiotsuka, a Japanese architect who has recently completed this minimalist house that sits in the middle of a walled compound overlooking the sea.

When it comes to minimalist architecture and interiors, nobody does it better than Japanese architects, they put out a surprising amount of hyper-minimalist work that is cold and sterile enough to eat sashimi off the floor!





















See the minimalist interior design of dining room, kitchen, and living room space which was arranged in one room area that have a great daylight illumination from the big window overlooking the outside view to the garden.

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