Positive Grid: Residential Sumikiri House By y+Mdo

In recent years, there are two basic rules for construction of private houses in Japan: the confidentiality of the lives of their inhabitants in a densely built-up “window in the window” and the most efficient planning a small, but very expensive piece of land.

Built-up area of this facility was approximately 113 square meters. On territory belonging to the house, located a parking space – reception, which has already become traditional for the modern private Japanese homes.

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Iron, painted in white grille on the facade of laconic form factor creates an interesting combination of transparency and confidentiality. In addition, the view from the windows to the house of neighbors through such a “filter” looks less depressing.

In addition, the lattice acts as a light partition, zoning a small space inside the house. This solution helps to separate the various functional areas from one another and at the same time, not block them, allowing air to “circulate” through these “delicate” elements of the internal architecture.

Steps leading not a second level, too, are so light and airy, that give the impression of “Stairway to Heaven”. A sleek and cool minimalist exterior smoothly turns into consonant with it, but a very warm wood interior, which eventually will be filled with furniture, objects and details.

Of course, this house is not a standard of living space, but its architecture is fully justified and interesting from the point of view provided by the authors of the original features.