The search for the minimum in architecture has led to more than a designer to provide us with a different way of seeing the Existing homes and minimalist houses around the world.
It is no longer about showing ourselves as little as possible, it is about that at the same time is useful, comfortable and that provides 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 designer industrial) always had in mouth that the volumes can be reduce to the minimum expression if we first strip the imagination of our architectural memories and we remember incessantly the phrase "less is more" .
This is where the style of minimalist architecture and in this sense, we have wanted to approach its purest principles since different examples of minimalist houses and others constructions where possible madness has taken over the mind of the architect or designer.
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If you really thought you had seen it all... Well no! He cheap building to build, sure it was and a lot of it imagination through, also, to be able to offer us a unparalleled visual spectacle where the expression "less is more" was taken to a subtly innovative point, full of sensations, forming a new trend of enjoy the landscape and nature.
We are talking about the Null Stern hotel, a hotel minimalist for different people. This is a picture to remember!
Someone could say... But how crazy is this! Well yes, that one is the hotel. Located in the mountains of the Alps Swiss want to show that another way to spend a night is possible and be careful! It costs 245 dollars per night.
This is actually the minimum expression that we can find on a constructive element dedicated to the world hotelier.
A totally surreal architectural idea made reality for the enjoyment of a few. Would you dare?…
From Japan, the architecture studio Shinichi ogawa & associates a wanted to represent the style millimalist to perfection from literally a bucket. In actually all his residential works are based on lines pure and simple, so it becomes a pleasure to watch all his works.
A project called simply, House Minimalist (Minimalist House) represents your good to do and the purest ideas of a renowned studio internationally for his record in finding the purity of the materials and the space.
Of course, the draughtsman will have had little work what to do in the drawing and execution of the plans of the home. Simple bedrooms and a dining room with lots of light. Us The project looks wonderful!
Someone said that to create minimal architecture you need a brick, because a group of architects from Oslo, Drawn Up. Believe that with a piece of chalk you can create your residence, so that we are not going to contradict them after having seen their projects, an absolute minimalist example !
First of all, wide spaces are really privileged, preferably tall or very tall and free. A harmonious environment and functional, outside the concept of excess of objects, saturation and possible visual contamination.
Although minimalist furniture seems a bit uncomfortable, in reality all that remains is to close your eyes, and imagine!
John Pawson likes the sea, so many of his works architectural are close to the great ocean with views impressive.
Natural perspective and overwhelming view planes 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 elements and basic, simple geometric shapes and colors pure.
Perfect terraces meet the view spectacular in the dining room. A housing model that offers a different philosophy!… The expression minimum
Manufactured homes are reaching their peak. 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 some mirrors that simulate that the house is suspended.
A small minimalist house design 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.
We must remember that all the elements of a work must combine and form a unit, understand how it is done, how it is designed and how it is decorated in its final part prioritizing the max all over the parts.
Space itself is of great importance, and never overshadowed by the different elements and decorative objects inside.
In this ideal context, there is a clear primacy and preference to pure and low lines , almost ground level or ground level, with absolute monochrome in the parameters; in smooth facades, in perfect ceilings, floors and walls, complementing itself with the simplest furniture in its visual aspect.
So the firm of architects Aires Mateus & Associates built the House in Leira (Portugal) where the minimalist architect Aires delved into white color floods both the interior and exterior of the residence.
A minimalist facade worth seeing. The pure white trend in the modern home! jumps over a gray environment with green tones.
An elegant and sober interior design combined with wood and the minimum number of elements possible in the decoration avoids everything that could be simply excessive.
The visual cleanliness that highlights this trend continues being a favorite of many professionals in the sector who have become even architects famous minimalists from around the world, who They do not hesitate to go in search of the minimum elements and basic, of those pure colors and more geometric forms with simple walls that place the construction and the work architecture as a protagonist in a project.
We know that there are many examples of minimalist houses but few can boast of using different materials to form a forceful aesthetic and style in your facade.
Geometric houses there are many, but this is the Perfect minimalism between slate stone and housing!…
Hand in hand with the architecture studio JM Architecture otra Lost detached house in the Swiss Alps with the Montebar project… «like a stone in the landscape». Simply a genius in the design and use of materials autochthonous.
Two images reflect their own style!… (A project by geometric similarities to the present single-family home we can see from the article of a country house in Poland)
An incredible house on the island of Tinos (Greece). From the architecture studio Kois Associated Architects we offer a home that looks more like a mirage than a constructive reality at first.
The building has a swimming pool that covers the entire of a covered floor area in rectangular format and with an infinite edge it shows us a rooftop worthy of name.
It was designed to blend into the landscape of the Aegean Sea with visible front façade imitating the surrounding stone and used local materials 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 looks like a surreal home, it's actually the residency is over!
There is no architecture office that manages both the perfection the simplest cube shape in architecture as is the Niizeki Studio studio. 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 lines of purification. Simple but at the same time exciting... A visual spectacle of the minimal architecture !
The term minimalism has always and throughout time has girded and rooted to all that has been reduced to what is essential and "pure", without any remaining elements that could give to the object a characterization different from the objective for which has been designed and built.
If we focus on textual translation, it comes from I term in English "minimist", which means minimal, that is, which uses the minimum.
Therefore, we can say that it is the tendency to reduce the «everything» to the essential, which uses the elementary geometry of the forms, and the relationship that these have with the space that surrounds them from the perspective of modern architecture.
From art . the term “minimal” was used for the first time since a thinker and British art philosopher named Richard Wollheim (1965), to refer to the paintings of Ad Reinhardt and other elements of art with a very high intellectual content, the which were formed by a low formal content or manufactured goods, such as Marcel's ready-mades Duchamp.
From architecture . The origins of this philosophy we find them in Europe and the manifesto entitled "Less is more" by the artist and German architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe.
In the late 1930s, Van Der Rohe exercised the direction of the Bauhaus School of Design and Art (Germany) where his first ideas were practiced and materialized regarding the "innocence" purity of forms and the use of concept from the artistic and architectural perspective of minimalist homes to provide the design industrial personality (Later, in the second world war, Mies emigrated to the United States). In it article history of the house we can take a tour to understand it in a general way.
As an inescapable architectural symbol for any architect is the German Pavilion at the Barcelona International Exposition of 1929. So we leave a video of this excellent work so that we can understand its importance and magnitude.
We also have to take into account that one of the variants angular and most significant aspects of minimalism is the concept of dematerialization (
This action translates into costly work that some professionals undertake to try to "make invisible construction" and try to integrate it into the environment without produce a visual shock.
In dematerialization they are mainly used very pure materials (glass, copper, stone basaltic…etc) on the facades and envelopes with the intention to camouflage or mimic the building taking care of the architectural detail to perfection.
The principles of minimalism on which it is based the design, both architectural and industrial that we can found in many constructions of houses and dwellings, inside offices, in the purest interior design, in many emblematic buildings or in industrial design… etc We can highlight the following points key:
