Cube House – Shinichi Ogawa & Associates Introduces Ultra-minimal Japanese house

Japanese architects of the studio Shinichi Ogawa & Associates completed the construction of an ultra-minimalist house Cube House in Kanagawa (Japan). In addition to the dazzling minimum of forms and colors, the special feature of the residential architecture “of the parallelepiped is a glazed roof that provides light penetration into the atrium – a central part of the house. A white color in the interior “diluted” only a very light wood and the changing hues of the sky.

The part on which the house is built, is located on the corner of a new residential district of Kawasaki-shi.

The main decoration of the interior is two rows of windows snow-white living room around which are formed all the other living rooms: it is like sky. A dominant feature of the situation of all rooms in the house is “void” – a spatial term and the importance of the eastern philosophy of existential definition.

Children’s room, kitchen, bedroom, closet, bathroom “surrounding” a spacious atrium lounge, fit in the dimensions of 9 x 9 x 6 meters ascetic “parallelepiped”.

“Breaking” the sky, the geometry and material elements of the roof allow the change of seasons and time to create an atmosphere inside the house.

Cube House is associated with the temple – the quintessence of Japanese culture, philosophy and, of course, state of mind and thoughts of its inhabitants.