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    Compact House × Stylish Exteriors

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    Follow your intuition to save photos that catch your eye. Explore spatial designs to uncover implicit preferences you haven't yet put into words.

    Compact House

    A compact house is a deliberately streamlined dwelling that prioritizes only essential functions and spaces. By optimizing plan efficiency, it reduces construction costs, utility bills, and ongoing maintenance expenses, and is well suited to narrow lots and dense urban contexts. Compact design fosters closer family connections and offers advantages such as efficient domestic circulation and ease of cleaning. This collection presents case studies demonstrating how a rich, high-quality lifestyle can be achieved within a compact footprint.

    Stylish Exteriors

    A curated compendium of homes showcasing contemporary, sophisticated exterior design. This feature presents approaches to façades and materiality that harmonize with the surrounding streetscape while accentuating individual identity, offering practical ideas to realize your ideal residence. The selection spans a broad spectrum—from minimalist modern to natural expressions and designs endowed with a sense of solidity and gravitas.

  • A Small House for Open Living in the Gap Between Buildings | Kigawa Row House|Compact House|Exterior|Custom-built house
    A plan to demolish and rebuild the single dwelling that remained in the gap between larger buildings.
    Architecture Firm:Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
    Iron Details
    Engawa
    Industrial
    Wood Texture
    Toplight
    Wood Deck
    Large Opening
    Exposed Beam
    Simple Life
    Bike Garage
    Urban housing
    Interior-exterior integration
    Galvalume steel cladding
    Tatami mats
    Softwood plywood
  • A Small House for Open Living in the Gap Between Buildings | Kigawa Row House|Compact House|Exterior|Custom-built house
    A small house offering open living amid the gaps between buildings.
    Architecture Firm:Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
    Iron Details
    Engawa
    Industrial
    Wood Texture
    Toplight
    Wood Deck
    Large Opening
    Exposed Beam
    Simple Life
    Bike Garage
    Urban housing
    Interior-exterior integration
    Galvalume steel cladding
    Tatami mats
    Softwood plywood
  • Narrow Skip-Floor Steel-Frame Garage House | ' ' House|Compact House|Exterior|Custom-built house
    Narrow skip-floor steel-frame garage house
    Architecture Firm:Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
    Narrow House
    Iron Details
    Industrial
    Expanded Metal
    Skip Floor
    House with Doma
    Fully Openable Sash
    Bike Garage
    Family with Children
    Garage House
    steel-frame construction
    urban residence
    box-shaped house
    steel
    living-room staircase
  • Narrow Skip-Floor Steel-Frame Garage House | ' ' House|Compact House|Exterior|Custom-built house
    At night the whole house appears to glow like a paper lantern.
    Architecture Firm:Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
    Narrow House
    Iron Details
    Industrial
    Expanded Metal
    Skip Floor
    House with Doma
    Fully Openable Sash
    Bike Garage
    Family with Children
    Garage House
    steel-frame construction
    urban residence
    box-shaped house
    steel
    living-room staircase
  • Narrow Skip-Floor Steel-Frame Garage House | ' ' House|Compact House|Exterior|Custom-built house
    Interior and exterior left in a naked, unlined skeleton state.
    Architecture Firm:Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
    Narrow House
    Iron Details
    Industrial
    Expanded Metal
    Skip Floor
    House with Doma
    Fully Openable Sash
    Bike Garage
    Family with Children
    Garage House
    steel-frame construction
    urban residence
    box-shaped house
    steel
    living-room staircase
  • A Small House for Open Living in the Gap Between Buildings | Kigawa Row House|Compact House|Exterior|Custom-built house
    Slim expanded-metal paired suspended doors.
    Architecture Firm:Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
    Iron Details
    Engawa
    Industrial
    Wood Texture
    Toplight
    Wood Deck
    Large Opening
    Exposed Beam
    Simple Life
    Bike Garage
    Urban housing
    Interior-exterior integration
    Galvalume steel cladding
    Tatami mats
    Softwood plywood
  • A Small House for Open Living in the Gap Between Buildings | Kigawa Row House|Compact House|Exterior|Custom-built house
    Exterior walls are clad in ribbed Galvalume steel, referencing materials and construction methods commonly found in the neighborhood.
    Architecture Firm:Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
    Iron Details
    Engawa
    Industrial
    Wood Texture
    Toplight
    Wood Deck
    Large Opening
    Exposed Beam
    Simple Life
    Bike Garage
    Urban housing
    Interior-exterior integration
    Galvalume steel cladding
    Tatami mats
    Softwood plywood
  • A Small House for Open Living in the Gap Between Buildings | Kigawa Row House|Compact House|Exterior|Custom-built house
    Exterior at dusk. Because suspended doors run along the façade, the entry light is specified as an uplight.
    Architecture Firm:Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates
    302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
    Iron Details
    Engawa
    Industrial
    Wood Texture
    Toplight
    Wood Deck
    Large Opening
    Exposed Beam
    Simple Life
    Bike Garage
    Urban housing
    Interior-exterior integration
    Galvalume steel cladding
    Tatami mats
    Softwood plywood
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