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.