Japanese House Designs, Architecture, Projects, Architects, Property, Design, Photos
Japanese House Designs
Key Contemporary Residential Buildings in Japan, Asia
post updated 30 Sep 2020
Japanese House Architecture
We have various pages of Contemporary Japanese House selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages. We aim to select projects that are either of top quality or interesting or ideally both.
We cover completed Japanese homes, new house designs, architectural exhibitions and competitions across Japan. Comments on the selection welcome. The focus is on contemporary Japanese residential buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.
e-architect have 4 pages of Japanese house designs:
Property Designs, alphabetical:
Japanese Houses : A-C
Japanese Homes : D-K
Japanese Property Designs : L-O
Japanese House Designs : P-Z (this page)
Recent House Designs in Japan
New Properties in Japan – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
added 23 May 2012
Villa Overlooking the Sea, Hayama, Japan
Edward Suzuki Associates
photo : Yasuhiro Nukamura
Villa Overlooking the Sea
This is a vacation home expected to become a permanent house in the future. Located about an hour’s car ride away from downtown Tokyo, it is located in the sea resort of Hayama in the Shonan region, adjacent to the more well known, old city of Kamakura.
20 Apr 2012
Storage House, Kanagawa, Tokyo
Ryuji Fujimura Architects
photograph : Takumi Ota
Storage House Tokyo
New property located in a residential area on the suburbs of Tokyo.
added 1 Apr 2012
Static Quarry, Gunma
Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects
photo by architects
Static Quarry
In the tenement house where 8 households live in, a lot of holes become vacant like a stone pit. In the floor space that include to the roof terrace, the outside is larger than the room, and the inside and the outside are complicated in a dwelling unit.
added 8 Mar 2012
Small House in Meguro-ku, south of Tokyo
Hiroyuki Unemori architects
photograph : Ken Sasajima
House in Meguro-ku
The small house which the married couple and their child live stands at the densely populated area in Tokyo. Though the neighboring houses is very close, I aimed to design the house which exceed the physical narrowness living at the city.
11 Jan 2012
Wind-dyed house, Yokohama, central Japan
Kazuhiko Kishimoto / acaa
photograph : Hiroshi Ueda
Wind-dyed house
A residential building located halfway up a cliff, overlooking the ocean. Thick clumps of trees that grow along the slope of the land surrounding the house cast a series of organic silhouettes that make the slope seem to come alive. We decided that the appropriate form to build would be as low-lying as possible, while also allowing the architecture to become embedded in the surrounding landscape according to the contours of the terrain.
22 Sep 2012
Roomroom, Tokyo
Takeshi Hosaka Architects
photograph : Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Pertners Inc.
Itabashi House
This is a house where deaf parents and two children are living. The two sides of the premises are facing narrow roads in an overcrowded residential area in Itabashi ward, Tokyo.
Japanese Home Designs
Japanese House Designs, alphabetical:
Parabola
Atelier Tekuto
photo : Makoto Yoshida
Parabola house
Projection House
Monolab
image from architects
Projection Home : design competition
Reflection of Mineral
Atelier Tekuto
photograph : Makoto Yoshida
Tokyo house
Residence in Kishigawa, Wakayama
Mitsutomo Matsunami Architects
image : Mitsutomo Matsunami
Kishigawa House
Residence in Matsugaoka, Hyogo
Mitsutomo Matsunami Architects
photo : Mitsutomo Matsunami
Matsugaoka House
Roof on the Hill, Takarazuka, near Osaka
Alphaville
picture : Kai Nakamura
Roof on the Hill
SHELL, Karuizawa, Nagano
Kotaro Ide / ARTechnic architects
picture : Nacasa & Partners Inc.
SHELL villa
Shounan House, Kanagawa, south Japan
Jun Igarashi Architects
photograph : Iwan Baan
Shounan House
Strata House, Kobe-city, Hyogo Prefecture
Tadashi Suga Architect
photo : Yoshiharu Matsumura
Strata House
Tokiwa House, Sakai City
Kenji Tagashira
photograph : Kei Sugino
Japanese Home
T Residence, Otsu-shi, Shiga, central Japan
EASTERN design office
photograph : Koichi Torimrua
Residence in Shiga
Y-House, Tokyo
Frank la Riviere, Architects inc.
image : Atarashi Ryouta
Y-House
Zen house, Hiroshima
Ryuichi Furumoto
image from architects
Zen house
Japanese Home Designs – No Links
Silver Hut house, Tokyo
1984
Toyo Ito & Associates
Soft and Hairy House, Ibaraki Prefecture, Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki
1994
Ushida Findlay Architects
Spiral Wall House, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture
1994
Ushida Findlay Architects
T-House
2005
Sou Fujimoto Architects
Truss Wall House, Machida-city, Tokyo
1993
Ushida Findlay Architects
Water/Glass Villa, Shizuoka Prefecture
1997
Kengo Kuma & Associates
photograph : Mitsumasa Fujitsuka
White U house
1976
Toyo Ito & Associates
YKK guest house, Kurabe
–
Fumihiko Maki
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Location: Japan
Japanese Architecture
Contemporary Architecture in Japan
Japanese Architectural Designs – chronological list
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