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Examples of minimalist houses and other designs
The search for the minimum in architecture has led more than one designer to provide us with a different way of seeing homes and minimalist houses existing around the world.
It is no longer about showing ourselves as little as possible, it is about being useful, comfortable and at the same time providing us with a visual pleasure of harmony that we rarely find in the most traditional architecture.
The father of architectural minimalism Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Architect and industrial designer) always had in mind that volumes can be reduced to a minimum if we first strip the imagination of our architectural memories and incessantly remember the phrase "less is more".
Seek extreme simplicity in architectural forms and spaces
This is where the style of minimalist architecture and in this sense, we have wanted to approach its purest principles from different examples of minimalist houses and other constructions where possible madness has taken over the mind of the architect or designer.
The hotel of minimal expression
If you really believed that you had seen it all … Well no! The cheap building to build, surely it was and a lot of imagination involved, also, to be able to offer us an unparalleled visual spectacle where the expression "less is more" was taken to a subtly innovative point, full of sensations, conforming a new trend of enjoy the landscape and nature.
We are talking about the Null Stern hotel, a minimalist hotel for different people. This is a photo to remember!
Someone could say … But how crazy this is! Well yes, that's the hotel. Located in the mountains of the Swiss Alps they want to show that another way to spend a night is possible and watch out! It costs 245 dollars a night.
This is actually the minimum expression that we can find on a constructive element dedicated to the hotel world.
A totally surreal architectural idea come true for the enjoyment of just a few. Would you dare? …
The Japanese purity of minimalism
From Japan, the architecture studio Shinichi ogawa & associates wanted to represent the milimalist style to perfection from literally a bucket. Actually all his residential works are based on pure and simple lines, so it becomes a pleasure to observe all his works.
A project named simply,Minimalist House (Minimalist House) represents his good work and the purest ideas of an internationally recognized studio for its trajectory in finding the purity of materials and space.
Of course, the draftsman will have had little work to do in the delineation and execution of the plans of the house. Simple bedrooms and a dining room with lots of light. We think the project is wonderful!
When there are no bricks
Someone said that to create minimal architecture you need a brick, because a group of architects from Oslo, Drawn Up. They believe that with a chalk you can create your residence, so we are not going to contradict them after having seen their projects, a minimalist illustration absolute!
Above all, wide spaces are really privileged, preferably high or very high and free. A harmonious and functional environment, outside the concept of excess objects, saturation and possible visual contamination.
Although the minimalist furniture seems a bit uncomfortable, in reality you just need to close your eyes and imagine!
Sea and pure lines
John Pawson likes the sea, so many of his architectural works are close to the great ocean with breathtaking views.
Natural perspective and overwhelming views over the sea make up a modern home that literally relaxes in its entirety with a "dematerialization" and working with noble materials such as wood, minimal and basic elements, simple geometric shapes and pure colors.
Perfect terraces are combined with the spectacular view from the dining room. A housing model that offers a different philosophy!… The minimal expression of the house on a terrace enclosure that enhances the beauty of the landscape.
Live floating
Manufactured homes are reaching their finest. Innovative ideas with minimalist designs make up a new series of modern homes that can be purchased at low prices without wasting comfort and construction quality.
From the MIMA studio they offer us the opportunity to live floating thanks to mirrors that simulate that the house is suspended.
A minimalist house design small but with great heart and composition. In the following video we can see everything, everything … And apparently with a result of excellent quality and still a very reasonable price in its construction.
Minimalist interior design from Portugal
It must be remembered that all the elements of a work must combine and form a unit, understand how it is made, how it is designed and how it is decorated in its final part, prioritizing everything over the parts.
The space itself is of great importance, and never overshadowed by the different elements and decorative objects of the interior.
In this ideal context, a clear primacy and preference is given to clean and low lines, almost at ground level or level with the ground, with absolute monochrome in the parameters; on smooth facades, on perfect ceilings, floors and walls, complemented by the simplest furniture in its visual aspect.
So the architectural firm Aires Mateus & Asociados built the House in Leira (Portugal) where the minimalist architect Aires delved into the white color floods both the interior and exterior of the residence.
A minimalist facade worth seeing. The trend of pure white in the modern home! It stands out against a gray environment with green tones.
An elegant and sober interior design combined with wood and the minimum number of possible elements in the decoration avoids anything that may be simply excessive.
The visual cleaning that highlights this trend continues to be a favorite of many professionals in the sector who have even becomeminimalist architects famous people from around the world, who do not hesitate to go in search of the minimum and basic elements, of those pure colors and more geometric shapes with simple walls that place the construction and the architectural work as the protagonist in a project.
A different material to surprise
We know that there are many examples of minimalist houses but few can boast of using different materials to create a strong aesthetic and style on their facade.
Geometric houses there are many, but this is the perfect minimalism between slate stone and housing! …
From the hand of the architecture studio JM Architecture, another single-family home lost in the Swiss Alps with the Montebar project… «like a stone in the landscape». Simply a genius in the design and use of indigenous materials.
Two images reflect their own style!… (A project of geometric similarities to the present single-family house can be seen from the article of a country house in Poland)
Minimalist design for summer
An incredible house on the island of Tinos (Greece). From the architecture studio Kois Associated Architects they offer us a home that seems more like a mirage than a constructive reality at first.
The building has a swimming pool that covers the entire surface of the covered floor in a rectangular format and with an infinity edge shows us a roof terrace worth mentioning.
It was designed to blend into the Aegean Sea landscape with the visible front façade mimicking the surrounding stone and local materials were used that have a low impact on the environment while being efficient as insulating materials. A spectacular idea!… The image of the pool says it all.
Although it seems that it is a surreal house, in reality the residence is already finished!
The cube
There is no architecture firm that handles the simplest cube shape in architecture as perfectly as Niizeki Studio is. His works translate the trends from minimal expression to perfection.
Facades that almost as you can recognize that they are houses.
With interiors that follow the same purification lines. Simple but at the same time exciting … A visual spectacle of the minimal architecture!
The concept and history of minimalist construction
The term minimalism since always and at all times it has adhered to and rooted in everything that has been reduced to the essential and "pure", with no remaining elements that can give the object a characterization different from the objective for which it has been designed and built.
If we focus on textual translation, it comes from the English term “minimist”, which means minimist, that is, it uses the minimum.
Therefore, we can say that it is the tendency to reduce the "whole" to the essential, which uses the elemental geometry of forms, and the relationship that these have with the space that surrounds them from the perspective of modern architecture.
The objective is for the viewer to focus their gaze on purely formal issues, such as scale, it can be color, surrounding space or volume.
From art. The term “minimal” was used for the first time by a British art thinker and philosopher named Richard Wollheim (1965), to refer to the paintings of Ad Reinhardt and other elements of art with a high intellectual content, which were formed by a low content formal or manufacturing, such as Marcel Duchamp's “ready-made”.
From the architecture. The origins of this philosophy can be found in Europe and in the manifesto entitled "Less is more" by the German artist and architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe.
At the end of the 1930s, Van Der Rohe was the director of the Bauhaus School of Design and Art (Germany), where his first ideas regarding the "innocence" purity of forms and the use of the concept from the perspective of artistic and architectural minimalist homes to give industrial design personality (Later, in the Second World War, Mies emigrated to the United States). In the article history of housing we can take a tour to understand it in a generalized way.
As an inescapable architectural symbol for any architect is the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. So we leave a video of this excellent work so that we can understand its importance and magnitude.
We also have to bear in mind that one of the angular and most significant variants of minimalism is the concept of dematerialization (Dematerialization processes, a little more information on the subject from HERE).
This action translates into a costly task that some professionals undertake to try to "make the construction invisible" and try to integrate it into the environment without causing a visual shock.
In dematerialization, very pure materials are mainly used (glass, copper, basalt stone … etc) in the facades and envelopes with the intention of camouflaging or mimicking the building, taking care of the architectural detail to perfection.
What are the principles of minimalism?
The principles of minimalism on which the design is based, both architectural and industrial that we can find in many constructions of houses and homes, inside offices, in the purest interior design, in many emblematic buildings or in industrial design … etc. We can highlight the following key points:
- Total abstraction; the works operate only in terms of color (To understand more about color and psychology), surface and format.
- The economy of language and media.
- Austerity with the absence of ornaments.
- The purism of the forms; structural and functional.
- Industrial production and standardization.
- Simple and literal use of materials.
- The goal of order in space.
- An elementary geometry with rectilinear shapes.
- precision in finishes.
- Reduction and synthesis.
- Maximum simplicity compared to the ostentatious concept.
- Concentration and reduction of point of view.
- Dematerialization, fewer objects and materials, more feeling.
- Absence of relational structures or formal content.
- Character in "opaque" elements.
- The emphatic and monochromatic surfaces used a lot in minimalist interior design that is very visually accepted.
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