For our newest lookbook, we have chosen eight windowless or low-light bedrooms illuminated with the aid of strategically positioned cutouts and intelligent structure options.
Bedrooms with out home windows are usually seen as much less engaging, however these initiatives present how a windowless bed room might be made cosy and gentle.
While most of those bedrooms haven’t got their very own home windows, they’ve been strategically positioned in buildings with a number of home windows or skylights close by, which creates putting sculptural interiors and means they nonetheless get some gentle.
That is the most recent in our lookbooks sequence, which gives visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration, see earlier lookbooks that includes clean windowless buildings and tiny bedrooms that utilise circumscribed house.
Love2 Home, Japan, by Takeshi Hosaka
Architect Takeshi Hosaka created Love2 Home, a microhome in Tokyo with a ground space of simply 19 sq. metres, that includes a compact bed room lit by the constructing’s elevated skylights.
The skylights challenge pure gentle into the entire of the home, which is split by concrete partitions to outline the totally different zones of the dwelling house, kitchen and bed room.
Casa Alférez, Mexico, by Ludwig Godefroy
Casa Alférez, a home simply exterior of Mexico Metropolis designed by Ludwig Godefoy, incorporates a bed room built-in into its wider open-plan structure. Pure gentle illuminates the home all through from skylights in its ceilings.
Utilising skylights as an alternative of a number of home windows provides the home a “cathedral feeling and proportion on the within, with gentle coming into in every single place from the highest,” Godefroy stated.
Home with a Featherlight Void, Japan, by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Home with a Featherlight Void in Japan additionally replaces home windows with skylights, permitting for frolicsome pure gentle all through the house’s staggered concrete ranges.
It options sunken multi-purpose rooms that can be utilized as bedrooms. Glazed openings in the course of every ground enable gentle to journey down from the skylight overhead.
Soho loft, USA, by Julian King
On this Novel York condo by designer Julian King, a windowless bed room sits atop a mezzanine with the intention to maximise house, with storage and a laundry space beneath.
“Numerous bespoke particulars remodel the beforehand cluttered house right into a neat, open loft that remembers its previous and place,” King stated.
Morelia home, Mexico, by HW Studio Architects
As an alternative of utilizing common home windows to light up the bed room on this Morelia home, designers HW Studio Architects created folding glass partitions which might be organized round courtyards throughout the constructing.
“The home reminds us of the arcades across the courtyard of San Agustin convent underneath which pilgrims and travellers sheltered, drank and fed from the various orange bushes planted,” stated lead architect Rogelio Vallejo Bores.
One-Legged Home, Japan, by IGArchitects
Located on the coast of Okinawa, Japan, IGArchitects‘ One-Legged Home is an open-plan dwelling that includes a window-less bed room designed to combine into the constructing’s distinctive malleable inside.
Wrapped in wood-framed sliding glass doorways, the house might be opened as much as its surrounding panorama. It was designed for a shopper who needed “a transparent view to the ocean and wind flowing via all day lengthy,” the studio stated.
Casa na Caniçada, Portugal, by Carvalho Araújo
Muted tones of gray concrete create a composed environment within the bedrooms of Casa na Caniçada by Carvalho Araújo, that are positioned on the “bunker-like” constructing’s windowless higher ground and have glass partitions alongside white curtains.
On the ground under, gigantic dwelling areas have floor-to-ceiling home windows to light up the house’s minimalist design.
“Plain options have been sought when it comes to areas and supplies to attain what’s arduous to outline or clarify,” architect Joana Nunes stated.
Broadview Loft, Canada, by StudioAC
StudioAC designed Broadview Loft in Toronto, an condo with a cave-like bed room that has no home windows and was designed as a comfy hideaway.
That includes a rounded archway at its entrance and a barely elevated ground, the sleeping nook would not endure from not having a window, however serves as a comfortable and restful bed room.
