PROGRESS minimalist home is strongly influenced by changes in urban lifestyle (upper middle) practical all.
Proportioned building form, the division of floors, walls, and roof looks balanced. Houses only have a few accessories, especially profile carvings. Form frames and shutters and doors rectangle that makes the house look assertive appearance.
The division of space is very efficient, functional, and clear hierarchy. Residents and guests can easily identify the functions of space. Placement of windows, doors, and skylights are aiming to enter the light and air properly and optimally in the room so that the use of lights and air conditioning equipment, especially in the morning and afternoon, can be reduced to a minimum. Excess minimalist house, house eco-friendly homes is directed into the middle of a trendthroughout the world .
For those who have limited land, multifunctional use of space. Merging function - a function space, such as terrace and living room, living room and family room, living room, dining room and kitchen, back porch, dining room and study room, is a consequence of the change of urban lifestyle. Time-consuming routine work outside the home makes the function spaces used optimally, there is no dead space.
The use of highly efficient, practical, lightweight but sturdy, and high-tech. Plain or textured exposed concrete on the walls of the house, wide glass windows little or no connection. Walls of glass combined with water makes a beautiful curtain wall of water, and cool the room. This wall is also a trend everywhere. Frame buildings of concrete to steel. Roof ranging from clay tiles, shingles, to steel plate. Forms staircase and rope suspended from plate steel, lightweight concrete, to the folding ladder that can be saved to the roof.
Plain wood without ornament, only polished or painted, still widely used for frames and doors and windows. Frame from a durable aluminum has also been widely used. Fence is also designed to strengthen the impression of minimalism from textured concrete, the betel leaf walls (stone pieces nested), to hedge softens the stiffness of the building.
Color selection is very important. The dominance of black, white, and gray is characteristic of the main building and furnishings. The atmosphere of the house seemed cold and heavy. To balance it, color-matching combined home other colors as accents (contrast), such as red, yellow, orange (bright) and brown, blue, green (soft). Contrasting colors are also used as an accent to highlight the shape of the building with the surrounding environment.
Home furnishings should follow the basic geometric shape of the building, so the chairs, sofas, desks, cabinets, and cots rectangular plain, without ornament of carving. Chairs, tables, and cabinets full of carvings even seem to be uncomfortable. Furniture leather sofas and metal with a dark color and a rectangular glass table decorated living room and family room. Overall, the room filled with furniture that is very efficient and functional course.
Network utility and sanitation are also laid out carefully. Placement tailored to the priority needs and easy maintenance. The game is very artistic lighting lamps, both spotlights, light plant, as well as hanging lamps with geometric forms. The bathroom is also equipped with a compact sanitary.
Anything as beautiful as the house was built, the house remained a dead building. For that, the home requires the "spirit" in order to create life. The presence of the household with all its activities and making home gardens will provide a dynamic spirit of home life. Placement of plant pots and carefully arranged in the shady corners of the house from the front porch to back porch and furnished corner fish pond will make the house seem alive.
Looking ahead, minimalist home a compact, stylish, and practical will be the favorite choice. Creativity and innovative with high artistry of the architects and supported the development of sophisticated technology to make a minimalist home will continue to grow with every new breakthrough. For those who love the things that modern and futuristic, especially the young executives who are single or young family dynamic, minimalist home will still be their favorite choice for a minimalist house has become a new symbol of urban society.
