Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos

Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos

Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos - FacadeY House / Jorge Sousa Santos - FacadeY House / Jorge Sousa Santos - Shelving, Lighting, WindowsY House / Jorge Sousa Santos - Facade, WindowsY House / Jorge Sousa Santos - More Images+ 20

Óbidos, Portugal

Text description provided by the architects. This house is a vision device. A system that rules the way the inhabitant sees the outside world and simultaneously frames the way the outside sees the dwellers. The design of this object was focused on this theme. The big curved window is this statement vortex, it creates a visual path that, like a camera traveling, reveal the image of the landscape.

Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos - Chair, Windows

The programmatic development of the house reflects the classic bourgeois organization promoting the clear division of rest areas leisure areas and work areas. This division creates tree limbs that are united by this design morphing that develop the two big windows of the living room.

Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos - Facade

The idea of landscape as an image and its importance in the domestic living were the main design focus of this scheme.

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Cite: "Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos" 04 Sep 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/33867/y-house-jorge-sousa-santos> ISSN 0719-8884

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