Japanese Style Glog

Japanese Style

          The Japanese style was very intricate and very well detailed when i was researching it. To the best of my ability, i recreated the characteristics into a modern-day home. In picture one, you could see how the wall is very thin, obviously with the program i used (Architectural Home Designer 9.0) does not have the option to create traditional paper walls which is one very important part of japanese architecture, so I modernized into a thin interior wall. As you could see that it is very open which is another important aspect of the style as it adheres to the ability of making rooms smaller or larger, in this case its not possible but you could still create that sort of feel that there is nice spacing for each room. In the second picture, the living room was desingned to have a very comfortable and neutral look by using black and white as primary colors for the house. I chose those two colors as it is very well known in japanese culture that it represents ying and yang so i decided to add that element to the home. For the last picture, the need for a comfortable place in the exterior of the house was very crutial to tie the whole house together. The amount of floral and trees creates the zen environment that it needs when one wants to relax outside in the fresh air and beauty that nature is intended to be. This style was very fun to modernize mostly because this style is mostly used for creating temples or shrines.

Japanese Architecture

Characteristics:

• For almost all strctures, many forms of wood is used (planks, straw, tree bark, paper, etc.)
• Posts and lintels support a large and gently curved roof
• The walls are made paper thin for the use of moving them around
• The roof is usually the most visually impressive, most of the time the size of half the edifice
• Slightly curved eaves extend far beyond the wall, supported by a complex system of brackets
• The interior is usually only made of a one whole room, this is where the use of paper walls or screens come in to play

Time Period/History: 57 BCE- 8th century CE
            Since the beginning of time has Japanese Architecture existed, stretching from 5000 BCE to the eight century CE, but the "look" or "feel" of this style was not grasped until 57 BCE. To this day, many Japanese architects make sure to honor the traditional style of Japanese Arch. by using materials that were the basis of the whole style, such as wood. Much of this style was used in the creation of temple and shrines, but were later adopted into residential and public spaces. Although many of the buildings were torn down, they made sure to keep the original and traditional style of the new building for historical rememberance. After years have gone by and after WWII, the style was modernized with the use of metal and stone because the fact that wood can easily burn down.

Location: Japan, Korea, China, parts of western Europe

Architectural Styles

1. Japanese
Dates: From 70,000 B.C., evolution from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D.
Location: Japan
Characteristics: Wood (in various forms)
                        Paper-Thin walls
                        Curved Roof
                        Spacing is very easy because the fact that the walls can be moved
                        The roof is always a very large part of the house, temple, etc, that is supported by tokyō, which are supporting blocks and brackets.

2. Gothic
Dates: 11-12th Century
Location: France
Characteristics: Ogival or pointed arches
                        Emphasized verticallity and natural light
                        Cathedral/Abbey based interior
                        Tall Spires
                        Considered skyscrapers of that time period

3. Spanish Colonial
Dates: 15th Century
Location: Spanish Colonies in Meixco, North & South America, and Spain
Characteristics: Interior/Exterior Courtyards
                        Low Pitched Roof
                        Exterior stucco finish
                        Predominately one-story