Contemporary one-storey white house in Japan

Found on Arhdaily this glowing residence is located in Kagawa, Japan. It sits in a rural area and it has an unusually eye-catching design.The house is white and this makes it very visible even from the distance. The residence was a project by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates. It has a steel frame system and it’s very durable and strong. The site measures a total of 484.95 square meters and the building itself covers a total surface of 143.91 square meters. The house was built in 2011.The residence is unusual mostly because its luminous design.

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It actually has a very simple structure. It’s a one-story home and it’s closed toward the outside by 3 vertical surfaces and a horizontal plane. It also has a semitransparent wall and a tunnel that serves as an entrance area. The glass wall allows natural light to get into the room during daytime. Moreover, the house turns into a luminous box in the darkness.The interior of the house includes two volumes. On the North side there’s a series of small rooms in a lane. They are closed areas and have ventilation openings. These rooms include spaces such as the utility room. On the South side the house features the main rooms as well as a large courtyard.

Luminous house shinichi ogawa associates5
Luminous house shinichi ogawa associates5
Luminous house shinichi ogawa associates5
Luminous house shinichi ogawa associates5
Luminous house shinichi ogawa associates5

The interior and the exterior as both white and this creates a uniform look and makes the boundaries more difficult to detect. The residence has a continuous and very simple look when seen from the outside and the simplicity is also visible inside. It’s a very bright home that had large windows and porcelain tiles on the floor.