?Minka 2013? is the residence of a farmer husband, his nutritionist wife and their daughters. The wife is a skillful cook and uses plenty of the vegetables picked by her husband. Because of that, a large ?Doma? (earthen floor room) *1, ?Engawa? (a veranda facing the garden) *2 and ?Kura? (a storage room) *3, to keep such things as homemade ?miso? soybean paste, were necessary. In traditional Japanese ?Minka? (the general residences for people who farmed), there are Doma, Engawa and Kura. Living in such a house is suitable for people whose life is in farming. With this project, we reconfigured each of these elements under a single roof since the aim was to build a compact and modern Minka for a nuclear family living in the countryside. 
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Architects: THTH architects

Location: Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Architects In Charge: Toshihiro Okitsu, Tetsuhiro Uchida (THTH architects)

Area: 90.28 sqm

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Satoshi Ikuma

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?Minka 2013? is the residence of a farmer husband, his nutritionist wife and their daughters. The wife is a skillful cook and uses plenty of the vegetables picked by her husband. Because of that, a large ?Doma? (earthen floor room) *1, ?Engawa? (a veranda facing the garden) *2 and ?Kura? (a storage room) *3, to keep such thin...