Light Walls House Japan

Today i d like to explore early prototypes including philip johnson s brick house and the seagram building.

Light walls house japan.

We have features japanese designs on this blog before but we never cease to be amazed by the way the simplicity of the style can create a calming space. The roof beams narrow the sunlight and the slightly angled clapboard interior walls with laminated wood reflect and diffuse the light. The light walls house designed by ma style architects in toyokawa city stands in a shaded location next to a two storey house on its south side. They are used for both interior and exterior walls.

Designed by the japanese office ma style architects the light walls house is a beautiful and minimal house located in toyokawa japan. Creating walls of light 05 jul 2014. Positioned tightly between neighboring buildings the wooden house is filled with daylight through perimeter skylights resulting in a uniform distributed light that creates the a unique soft and calm atmosphere that makes the exposed. Natural light diffuses into this house in yokohama japan through a grid of arched skylights in the ceiling.

Light walls house is a minimalist house in toyokawa aichi prefecture japan designed by ma style architects. Positioned in a shady location between two neighbouring buildings in aichi japan the wooden house couldn t have many windows so ma style architects added skylights around each side of the flat. Japanese houses didn t use historically use glass resulting in some interesting methods of natural lighting. As a result soft and uniformly distributed light is created.

According to the architects the site is in a shady location and gives an impression of darkness with the houses around intensifying the shadows. In both of these houses from the architects at ma style are prime examples of this utilizing different levels angles and a contrast of open spaces and cozy nooks they have created two unique homes that reflect japanese sensibility and. A shoji is a sliding panel that is made of translucent paper in a wooden frame.