Innovative House Plans

Warped Wall House In Tokyo

This warped wall house certainly is something unexpected, but not entirely out of the blue for this forward-thinking Japanese architecture firm. Be-Fun Design created this innovative house plan that focuses on minimalist living with maximum impact. This striking style of organic architecture welcomes you with winding walls curve unexpectedly, leading you through an exterior alley-like structure to the main entrance. Inside, minimalist interiors make way for a vertical organization, where a series of stairs and ladders connect the various levels ... Continue >

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Sloped Terrain House - Modern Industrial Meets Nature

Architect Michael Rantilla of Freelon Group is the creative force behind the Rantilla Residence, an admirable example of modern architecture where nature and industry come together in harmony. Located near Raleigh, North Carolina, the wonderful wooded sloped terrain presents both this home’s appealing and its problematic characteristics. Between the zoning restrictions, a stream and a steep slope, the architect designed this cool three-storey house with three very distinct volumes, each facing a different direction and cantilevered between each other and ... Continue >

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Australian Architecture Firm Blurs Boundaries in the Perforated House

The Perforated House is an unusual modern house with its own agenda. Designed by Australian architecture firm Kavellaris Urban Design in an infill neighborhood in Brunswick, Victoria, the house “is a platform to establish a critical dialogue within our built environment; to raise questions as much as to find solutions,” according to the architects. “The project is a critique on our cultural attitudes and how we determine them, on what we consider to be of heritage significance and how to ... Continue >

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Modern Portuguese Architecture ... will change the way you see the world

Described by folks at SousaSantos, a modern Portuguese architecture firm, as a “vision device”, the contemporary Y House is designed to change the way you see the world – literally. “The big curved window is this statement vortex,” explains the architect of this unusual house plan. “It creates a visual path that, like a camera traveling, reveals the image of the landscape.” The minimalist white facade features expansive windows throughout, allowing for a view of the outdoors from every point ... Continue >

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Contemporary Scandinavian Architecture – Four Rooms Make an Innovative House Plan

An interesting example of contemporary Scandinavian architecture, Nora House (also dubbed Double House), designed by Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter, will have you doing double-takes. Located in Danderyd, Sweden, this modern architecture is curious from the outside, with its solid facade of grey-blue cast concrete, complemented by many warm, wood-framed windows. But it’s the innovative interiors that’ll have your head spinning. An inventive, open concept floor plan organizes a sequence of four large rooms – living, lounging and working spaces ... Continue >

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