This house in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan was designed for a couple by Shun Hirayama. The site is a mountainside that overviews a sea and a city. The concept design is creating feeling of walking on the hillside inside the house. So the design was considered what is should be there on a hill.

The house is wonderful in design with the careful attention to house the dogs. The area underneath the house is utilized for the dogs with low opening to the yard with green grass. There is an outdoor shower too. This minimalist house has simple façade spacious interior which is efficient. The contrast is in interiors [...]

The house called Yakisugi House (charcoal house) had been created by Terunobu Fujimori. This house located on Nagano, Japan. The building consisted of a living and dining area, a study, two bedrooms, and a tearoom in the mini “tower”. The walls of this house were made of charred cedar boards, a traditional cladding material still [...]

The architects presented energy efficient modern house due to the competition held by the Department of Energy at Cornell University. To fulfill the criteria for a zero-energy residence, Zero Energy Design (ZED) created this sustainable house. Called the Solar Decathlon House in Ithaca, New York, the house design consisted of one bedroom and one bathroom [...]

The Shingle House was located on one of the most unusual and poetic landscapes in England, on the shingle beach of Dungeness, near Romney Marsh. The vast beach kept for a random collection of fisherman’s huts (many of them owned by artists, including – most famously – the late film-maker Derek Jarman), two lighthouses, and [...]