Vidiela - 150 Best Minimalist House Ideas

Minimalism implies the reduction of all elements to a minimum and essential level, achieving spaces that are clutter free and free of excessive decoration. If you are looking to simplify your home, and give it a sophisticated look, a minimalist style might be what you are looking for. This book features a rich selection of architecture and interior design projects, and 150 ideas we hope will spur your imagination to design your home in a minimalist style. A minimalist home strives for order and harmony in the relationship between spaces and the objects they contain. Space flows continuously around walls. Living, dining, and kitchen spaces leak into each other.

Often walls are used not to partition a space into rooms, but rather to create segments of space within the larger volume. Another option is to compartmentalize a space with movable panels and screens. In minimalist homes, the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces are blurred. The reflective and transparent properties of metal and glass are used to give the impression of a dematerialization of the building. This is how architecture and landscape become a single item. From an aesthetic view, free-flowing spaces suggest the disposition of the positive and negative, and the transformation of architectural forms into synthetic shapes enhances the visual power of light and color.

The easiest way to describe minimalist spaces is by showing examples. Rejecting unnecessary detailing and decoration in favor of open space, Belgian architect Karla Menten in her Hidden apartment remodel, emptied out its interior. Then, inspired by the suprematist compositions of Kazimir Malevich, she inserted three volumes, which contain the essential home equipment and introduce a touch of color. As a result, the apartment is spareor, as she puts it, has an elementally ethereal aesthetic. Artist Donald Judds long arrangements of repeated geometric objects are another well-known illustration of minimalist composition. Judds simple but powerful arrangements divide space in a clean, architectural manner.

Like columns, the objects structure and define the area surrounding them. Visually, their full effect depends on the presence of light or, more specifically, the play of light and shadow. As the most immaterial of architectural elements, light enlivens and transforms architecture and interior spaces. The ephemeral, time-sensitive qualities that light produces on surfaces was clearly understood by American minimalist artist Dan Flavin, who said that, A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall. Although one inevitably thinks of white when discussing minimalist architecture and interior design, the interplay of form and light is completed by color.

Architect: Fran Silvestre, Ma Jos Sez/Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Location: Ayora, Spain Photography: Fernando Alda The house is located at the base of a cliff with an ancient castle atop. Architect: Fran Silvestre, Ma Jos Sez/Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Location: Ayora, Spain Photography: Fernando Alda The house is located at the base of a cliff with an ancient castle atop.

Its architects avoided mimetic designs and its all-white appearance makes it stand out from its rugged surroundings, but it does not fight the neighboring houses. From outside the house looks like a wedge sunk into the rocky hillside. Inside, the layout is stratified and organized around a vertical communication nucleus that also brings light in. Dramatic visual effects can be achieved by the incidence of light on formschanging not only the atmosphere, but also the perception of the geometry. In minimalist architecture, components often serve both visual and functional purposes. A small bathroom can look bigger when accessed through a narrow corridor. A small bathroom can look bigger when accessed through a narrow corridor.

Play with differing light intensities to emphasize this effect.

Architect: EMPTY SPACE Architecture Location: Cascais, Portugal Photography: Joo Morgado This home was designed to meet the needs of a person with reduced mobility and to be environmentally sustainable. It has two interconnected rectangular volumes oriented by the triangular nature of the plot. The spatial identity of the house lies in the dialog between its interior and exterior.