Israeli interior design studio Hilit Interior Design has completed an interior design of a villa in a country region in north of Israel.

+ Project description by Hilit Interior Design

The project includes an interior design of a villa in a country region in north of Israel.

Interior design work done by Hilit included close escort of the interior design of the house, starts with the stage of planning the skeleton through  the interior design, including flooring, lighting, elements made of plaster, kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms, down to the final styling.

Image courtesy Hilit Interior Design

Image courtesy Hilit Interior Design

Embedded in a country house outside the openness draws airy spaces which are expressed in broad, bright and clear yet a “retreat” and an object of longing.

Minimalism calculated visual cleanliness, are expressed in the walls free of decoration, still dotted with patches of color that add interest to the space.

Image courtesy Hilit Interior Design

Image courtesy Hilit Interior Design

The clean white color was selected for the spacious kitchen which its greatness is in its simplicity combined with complementary colorful accessories.

The final product of all of these is a sophisticated space yet with a minimalism of lines and a lot of interest.

Image courtesy Hilit Interior Design

Image courtesy Hilit Interior Design

+ Project credits / data

Design: Hilit Karsh | Hilit Interior Design © | http://www.hilit.net
Location: Israel
Photographs: Itay sikolski

+ About Hilit Interior Design ©

Hilit Interior Design © is a well established leading interior design firm that has been operating since 2002 and is directed by Hilit Karsh, who is personally involved in each project led by the company. Hilit is graduated (B.A.) from the Haifa University (1996) and has completed studies in interior design at the Wizo – Canada College in Haifa (1999).

Philosophy of planning: the company leads an innovative and contemporary   designer feature which relates to the international design trends. The designing philosopy we believe in is functional ‘minimilistic’ clear cut lines together with the use of colours materials and light. This transforms ordinary space into unique areas. We endeavour to excite and surprise by creating unique spaces.

The Goal is to create a total style. Combining art and design- to be contemporary, bold and inventive-to constantly break down old out dated conventions.

Management of the company: our management philosophy is based upon the provision of efficient and professional planning services in the framework of determined timetable and budgets, the accompaniment from the conceptual stage  and the comprehension of the client’s needs, up to the complete performance. The planning is conducted by the means of the leading software in the field and through tridimensional imagery, in order to provide the client with an idea and the clearest picture available of the reality before the beginning of the work in the field.

The expertise of the company is the planning of private habitats, sample apartments for contractors, and commercial design such as entertainment locations, restaurants, chains, shops and design of offices buildings.

In the commercial field, the company provides comprehensive designing solutions (Total Design) and combines experience and commercial comprehension along with being updated and with innovative designing development which emphasizes the marketing messages and the values of the product. We perform designs that are integrated into the client’s actual concept and develop original designing concepts. All this is performed at a high professional level.

We believe that each project is led by the client’s needs and his/her target population. In order for us to be attractive, we must touch the soul, raise inspiration and enthusiasm and convey the message that you are innovative and special. Along with the unique creativity of our company, each project reaches an original and surprising result and thus, intensifies the client’s experience and creates the “WOW” effect.

+ All images courtesy Hilit Interior Design © | Photo by Itay sikolski

Japanese architectural firm yHa architects has recently completed the YNH house located in Tokyo, Japan.

The facade has “autonomously” opening system grid-like continuous pattern and its size are “heteronomously” translated in relation to views or surrounding environment or interior function.

yujin HIRASE, founder of yHa architects

+ Project description by yHa architects

I thought mainly how to connect with time axis of surrounding history of the site that a military commander made a “fort” during the Age of Civil Wars (15-16th century) . The site of north/west is road and south/east is the neighboring house, so the major theme is the way of taking a sunlight.

YNH, image courtesy yHa architects | Photo © Takeshi YAMAGISHI

I designed 3-floor void as “light-tube” by analogy of “fort” like Scotish Tower-House. The room on each floor are arranged around “light-tube” like a square in the house and the inner-opening facing the void make a role as linking by one’s eyes between the room.

YNH, image courtesy yHa architects | Photo © Takeshi YAMAGISHI

The facade has “autonomously” opening system grid-like continuous pattern and its size are “heteronomously” translated in relation to views or surrounding environment or interior function.

YNH, image courtesy yHa architects | Photo © Takeshi YAMAGISHI

By putting opening continuously in a height of eye-level and designing the details of opening frame close to frame-less, our eyes go through inside and outside although narrow space so we don’t feel the oppression. The room has same specifications that is exchangeable for other functions. I proposed the “prototype” architecture by grasping the delicate differences of surrounding environment.

YNH, image courtesy yHa architects

In considering the context with the surrounding environment, in Japan I think the ground is texture or color of the structures for public use (e.g. road) these are remaining almost same in the future more than the form or place of opening of surrounding architecture. I designed this architecture like “fort” in the city continuously from the texture or color of road in front of this site.

YNH, drawings courtesy yHa architects

+ Project credits / data

Architect: yujin HIRASE | yHa architects | http://yha.jp
Project: YNH
Location: Japan
Photography: © Takeshi YAMAGISHI, yHa architects

+ About yujin HIRASE

yujin HIRASE | Architect, Japan | Born in Tokyo (Japan)

• 1999 Studies in Architecture at Waseda University
• 2001 Diploma at Waseda University Graduate School
• 2001-07 Collaborations with Prof. Nobuaki Furuya and NASCA (Japan)
• 2007- yHa architects (Japan)
• 2007-08 Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Switzerland)
• Collaborations with HHF architects

Teaching

• 2003-06 Assistant at Waseda University
• 2005-07 Lecturer at Kyoto University of Art and Design
• 2006-07 Lecturer at Waseda University
• 2006-07 Research Assistant at Waseda University
• 2008- Associate Professor at Saga University

+ All images courtesy yHa architects | Photo © Takeshi YAMAGISHI

Terminal01 has designed the Dojima River Forum CAFE located in Osaka Japan.

+ Design statemetn by Terminal01

The cafe is situated on the second floor of the recently opened Dojima River Forum in Osaka Japan. Osaka city used to be called a water-capital. Rivers and canals once crisscrossed the city.

Dojima River Forum CAFE - Exploded axonometric, drawing courtesy Terminal01

Dojima River Forum CAFE - Layout plan, drawing courtesy Terminal01

There is a big solid wooden staircase as an element, which connects ground level and second level, the café. Facade of the building is glass curtain wall, so that we tried to design the staircase symbolic to emphasize as an entrance of the Café.

Material of the ceiling is glossy vinyl sheet. Because the cafe is located on the second floor of the building, people, walking on the ground level, can naturally catch the ceiling of the cafe.

The glossy ceiling reflects the surroundings and scenes of the inside space. The reflection is as if the reflection of the river. The reflection of inside and outside makes people consider the continuity of the inside space and outside space.

Dojima River Forum CAFE, image courtesy Terminal01

Dojima River Forum CAFE, image courtesy Terminal01

Dojima River Forum CAFE, image courtesy Terminal01

+  Project credits / data

Architects: Kei haraguchi + Keigo miki | Terminal01 | http://terminal01.jp/
Location: osaka, japan
Typology: Restaurant+cafe
Floor area: 242.04 m2

+ All images and drawings courtesy Terminal01

Japanese studio Terminal01 has completed a house in Kitasaya located in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

“void” was placed at the center of the house, which is the main space of the house. This space is open up to the sky…family can feel the cycle of the seasons, weather, light, and so on, through this void space, even though there are few window on the facade.

Kei haraguchi + Keigo miki, founder of Terminal01

House in Kitasaya, image courtesy Terminal01

House in Kitasaya, image courtesy Terminal01

House in Kitasaya, image courtesy Terminal01

+ Architect’s statement by Terminal01

When the project developed, the client requested a house which does not have too much opening to outside. They wants their own private space, but they get uncomfortable without feeling each other’s presence.

So that, one opening  “void” was placed at the center of the house, which is the main space of the house. This space is open up to the sky, so it is completely outside and does not have specific function.
However, this void brings the light to all the space in the house and parents who lives first floor can feel the life of their sons who are in second floor.

We would like to design the house which family can feel the cycle of the seasons, weather, light, and so on, through this void space, even though there are few window on the facade.

House in Kitasaya - L1 floor plan, image courtesy Terminal01

House in Kitasaya - L2 floor plan, image courtesy Terminal01

House in Kitasaya - Section B-B, image courtesy Terminal01

+  Project credits / data

Architects: Kei haraguchi + Keigo miki + Miho Tsujioka | Terminal01 | http://terminal01.jp/
Location: Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Typology:  House
Structure: wood structure, 2 stories
Site area: 133.79 m2
Total floor area: 138.601 m2
Project completion: 2010

+ All images and drawings courtesy Terminal01