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A Private and Grand Live-Work Home in Tochigi for a Reader

Shinichi Ogawa & Associates have designed a serenely private home with a high-ceilinged central living room based on a courtyard, in Tochigi, Japan.

Semi-opaque glass diffuses light into a courtyard that brings light to the tall central living room.

The taller central white cube houses a spacious double-height living room, while normal height is reserved for surrounding courtyards and remaining rooms.

The double-height ceilings in this great room at the centre of the house makes a grand space for entertaining.

The slice shows the internal plan of the smaller rooms encircling a central cube.

It’s possible to access to all of the rooms encircling the central living room.

Very low-profile doors exiting the main room to the kitchen and office contrast with the clearly announced entrance alcove.

The master bedroom suite can be accessed through the courtyard, or through a similarly understated door from the living room.

Courtyards at both sides bring daylight into each room, despite the apparently windowless exterior.

Opening off a second smaller courtyard at the back of the house, the bathroom enjoys a blissfully open space.

Full-sized floor-to-ceiling glazed doors that can be fully opened to the outdoor courtyard are only half this room’s extraordinary height.

A very intriguing design – for a client who loves to read, and desired a compact yet grand live-work space in downtown Tochigi – that was totally private.

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A Desert Prefab Demo from Nottoscale

An artist’s retreat in the desert offers an opportunity for Nottoscale to demonstrate its prefab housing.

Because the site was so isolated, the only way to put a house here was to ship it completely built as a prefab.

Far from roads or hardware stores, the construction served as a prototype for the company.

The isolated prefabricated dwelling is used as an simple retreat for an artist and includes a guest bedroom.

Despite the compact floor plan, each of the bedrooms offer small computer workspaces.

The concrete-framed wooden deck almost doubles the living space and includes a built-in hot tub.

Sunlight floods the cheerful space with its chic and comfortable furnishing.

An IKEA-like uncluttered design sensibility in the furniture choices and color palette makes a simple and joyful.

Two identical bathrooms are clad in tiny green tiles.

The retreat offers a restful vacation spot set in expansive desert views that stretch to the horizon.

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Tiny Casa Kolonihagen Pops Out a Bedroom

What you see is what you get in this teeny house  by Tommie Wilhelmsen.

The compact cabin is in Stavanger, Norway.

A glance through the big window as you approach reveals the main space is a living room.

Popped out next to the big window is a high-up sleeping alcove, accessed via a small stepladder.

Once up there, the space is just right, reduced to the basic need for sleep.

An intriguing gap in the darkest shadows offers a view through to other neighbouring houses.

As you enter through this central gap, you turn left into the space.

Cosy conversational seating in the living room is built into another alcove but is low to the ground.

The space of the sleeping alcove appears to expand the small living room, even as it is separate.

By contrast with the pristine white interior, the exterior is richly stained panelling and plywood.

At the far end of the cabin is a bench-style “kitchen” of sorts.

This rudimentary workspace is intended just to wash glasses and to prepare fruit from the garden.

The cabin in the garden provides a place to host friends.

The garden cabin is designed to accommodate a guest – but also to serve as a base where friends can gather.