Small House Design Essay

This part of thesis includes traditional Japanese style small space and small house designs from ancient ages to today, how this culture use small spaces efficiently and transformed it to a lifestyle. Japan expresses using small not only in home and space designs but also in all sort of arts, from miniature arts trees, to paintings. This nation can be seen as the best for using small things with in natural point of view, contributing outside world with inside by traditional Japan gardens. The design principles of Japan demonstrates efficiently use of small spaces, things with in a harmony of ‘fit to one’s life’ concept , creating design solutions with all elements such as light, color and texture, and space approaches such as; horizontal and

(Brown A.)Home is where our hearts belong to; home is a close box where we leave our dreams and desires. Our homes in time become a part of our identity, our personality. Many of us can live without luxury or fashionable furniture designs but none of us will want to live without comfort which is shaped by space content. (Brown A.1993)

Space can be in various types such as; adequate, generous, liberating spaces are some of them. During research we see that most people all around world lives in less spaces. This research demonstrates how this lack of space, living less spaces created intelligent design solutions for people living in small spaces. These intelligent designs are connected truly to compactness, comfort and convenience and go hand-in hand. Many design types here will fit to ones that live in less space like studios or one-bedroom apartments. (Brown A.1993)

Horizantal space organization is traditional in Japan and ensures daylight in space by large windows, and by using low tables less shadows occur under table and privacy between activities is given by short partition which does not block daylight.Low furniture is more efficient ofr small houses is a traditional content in Japanese small