ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Mon, 6 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/791867/minka-2013-thth-architects Sun, 24 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000 Daniela Cardenas https://www.archdaily.com/791867/minka-2013-thth-architects “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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