Barn Style Home Design by Japanese Architecture Firm

This awesome barn style home design is a unique workshop / home in Hamamatsu City by Japanese architecture firm Yukiharu Suzuki & Associates. This industrial-chic house has a “homey” twist that makes it an inspiring working and living space. This three-storey concrete and wood barn is perched on a hillside with dramatic views of the sea and skyline. From the outside, the home’s unusual slat-style facades allow interior light to permeate out, offering the house a glowing effect. Inside, the house is a vast open-concept space, open to above with exposed wood posts and beams that give it that “workshop” flair. Glass walls line the main floor, flooding interiors with natural light while blurring the boundary between inside and out. Sliding Japanese shoji screens divide the sprawling interior, defining its different living areas. In a twist of the unexpected, this house is topped by gleaming steel shingles

Dutch architect Paul de Ruiter designed Villa Roling – a contemporary lake house in Kudelstaart, Netherlands – for an art-collecting couple with obviously impeccable tastes. Designed in a maritime style with a modern edge, this cool, contemporary home is a beacon of light on the edge of Lake Westeinderplas, with its glass-enclosed ground level topped by a contrasting volume of wood – a space designated to housing the clients’ art collection. From inside, the views of lake and garden grounds are maximized through the expansive floor-to-ceiling windows, which offer the interior a very minimal, wall-less look, complemented by interesting finishes, luxurious flooring and a fabulous two-storey living space at the heart of it all, crowned with a skylight that naturally illuminated the couple’s prized painting

Johnsen Schmaling Architects are the designers behind the rustic Camouflage House, hidden in Green Lake, Wisconsin. This magnificent, modern lake cabin is perched on a steep hillside overlooking the lake, surrounded by trees in a veritable nature-lovers wonderland. This densely treed plateau has inspired the look of this natural house design; a rustic, low-profile silhouette with cedar and glass panels, framed to resemble the forest’s vertical lines and repetition. An understated, low-lying entrance gives way to a stunning, 2,700-sq.-ft. two-storey lake house that appears to spill down the hillside, with the breathtaking lake just beyond. Like the cabin-like exterior (a very chic cabin!), interiors are rustic and minimalist, yet sophisticated, elegant and chic all at once. Natural elements prevail, like warm and rich woods, and earth tones, and the panoramic views