Minimalist Houses
Home Improvement April 26th, 2010
HOUSE minimalist style of architecture is a building that was a trend in the metropolis. Architectural buildings, including houses minimalist, is the choices of architectural form as a result of culture. Not just me-too talkative trends.
MINIMALIST is the pattern of thinking, working, and a way of life. A new way of looking at design as a reflection of how urban life is very practical, lightweight, efficient, and management simplicity.
The house also comes with a minimalist character more clearly (forms and geometric space, simple), better (stronger), and stronger with the spaces blank (a little ornaments and furniture). The simple principle, the quality of design, space, and the resolution of the structure must be getting better. John Pawson is regarded as a teacher “minimalism” to bring home a minimal design lines, the atmosphere is quiet and beautiful.
However, it should be noted too minimalist would be sterile, single-way, and tend to be boring. For that we need to understand together how the development of minimalist home base in the context of our urban culture.
Was always a minimal form of a simple box or there is another form? Minimalist form of house does not always have a simple box, but also the shape of Platonic geometry can be part of the landscape that “suddenly” came up. However, if the house is only necessary form of boxes, the box shape is the result of a process function needs, not because of coercion or talkative follow trends.
The minimum is the ultimate ornament. Minimum a goal in itself and ornaments are simple and pure (simple and pure). Straight lines, flat areas are smooth, sometimes rough, and meeting all of the elbow perpendicular. Blocking mass, materials, lighting, repetition, circulation compact, multifunctional space optimization and sequential.
What type of materials used should be as little as possible? Use of a variety of materials such as wood, brick, stone, glass, exposed concrete, or steel can also appear pure. Exposure to the dominance of certain materials would produce effects different. Design and calculations of detail structure can save the use of materials with the optimum structure.
Resolutions from the floor, walls, doors, windows, vents, skylights, ceiling, up to the roof, with a combination of consistent use of materials. Framework of (concrete, steel), walls (glass, wood, concrete plain / exposure, steel, stone, brick, hebel, brick), doors and windows (wood, metal), stairs (concrete, steel, wood, fiberglass) , skylights (fiberglass), floor (cement, terrazzo, ceramic, marble, parquet), ceiling (plywood, gypsum) or without a ceiling (exposed concrete, exposed steel roof truss, wood) and roof (tile, shingle, steel).
The use of bright colors (red, orange, yellow) in some areas of exposure will strengthen minimalist home accents and make it the focus of the environment.
IS architecture minimalist house was cheap because of the word minimum?
Does it build a minimalist house must be expensive? For young couples or young executives who seek a minimalist house as a symbol of the life of the metropolis, a shortage of funds is clearly a major obstacle.
Minimalist house design features emphasize straightforward, plain, simple, uncomplicated, compact, and space efficiency. Expensive cost of a building is determined by the use of used materials from the proposed design. The cost of building structures generally use a standard market price. Completion of work neatly and carefully requires skilled craftsman power, jelly, and experienced craftsmen making cost above market prices.
Minimalist impression also appears in the attitude of the architect, the client’s approval as a prospective owner of the house, to “voluntarily” reduce many of the requirements are not important. Only the essential functions of the house will be retained only so if the house is impressive minimalist, it is only the result of a process. Not a destination. The beauty of minimalist homes in an optimal place of the purity of the function itself.
Is your home comfortable to live in a minimalist?
Minimalist house would certainly be convenient to live in an urban society the very practical, functional, lightweight, economical, and efficient, because minimalism is the embodiment of their lifestyle, according to the needs of their functions. Symbol of the metropolis lifestyle. A simple way of life in total.
Home furnishings following the basic geometric shape of the building, efficient, and functional course. Structuring a thorough light and artistic (floodlighting, light plant, hanging lamps, garden lamps) makes the house look more artistic minimalist in the evening.
Minimalist houses will continue to grow along with the creativity of architects, design innovation, and support the technology, making appearances minimalist house will always be present with new breakthroughs are fresh, the more perfect the details, and a more affordable price. The presence of minimalist house became the medium of communication between the architecture and landscape in the form of the contrast between the natural and man-made things (culture).
Structuring a minimalist garden will provide the “spirit” softness against the rigidity of the building, violent materials, and harmony of living with shady environment around. The presence of shade trees, lawns, and other shade plants provide fresh and lively atmosphere to fill the “void” minimalist house.
In the end the value of minimalist beauty of the house is no longer rely on ornaments and artificial objects, but it is more meaningful to an honest form, function, and the inspiration that created space. So no wonder if then the house became the choice of minimalist urban communities who longed honesty, simplicity, and innocence.












