Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos

04 Sep 2009
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Architect: Jorge Sousa Santos
Location: Arelho, Óbidos, Portugal
Client: Telmo Faria
Project year: 2003
Construction year: 2006
Photographs: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

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.

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.

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 24 May 2013. <http://www.archdaily.com/33867>

19 comments

tom on September 4, 2009 at 16:43 said:

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nice and nice 3D

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- Nico Saieh on September 4, 2009 at 16:52 said:
  
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  tom,
  
  This project is already built, there are no 3D images
  
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  - mvddraw on September 5, 2009 at 11:02 said:
    
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    ha,ha,ha it’s a “real 3D”
RR on September 4, 2009 at 18:14 said:

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GREAT STUFF… LOVELY EXECUTED!

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thomas foral on September 5, 2009 at 4:01 said:

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Steve on September 5, 2009 at 7:20 said:

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Boring.

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AHMED on September 5, 2009 at 19:28 said:

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too simply

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Maqbul on September 7, 2009 at 2:23 said:

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Reading: "Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos | ArchDaily" (http://twitthis.com/5vi82i)

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mvddraw on September 7, 2009 at 8:26 said:

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It´s simple…and great!!

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nloureiro on September 8, 2009 at 9:23 said:

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Y House by Jorge Sousa Santos ( http://www.sousasantos.com ) in Arelho, Óbidos, Portugal – http://bit.ly/1qOS1r

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Felipe Lins on September 8, 2009 at 23:15 said:

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the Y house http://bit.ly/tadSr

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ignjat on September 9, 2009 at 12:09 said:

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Looking at: "Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos | ArchDaily" (http://twitthis.com/5vi82i)

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Andrew Geber on September 20, 2009 at 12:49 said:

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excellent example of iberian architecture

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Felipe Goes on November 6, 2009 at 8:42 said:

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Great house. A modern palace.

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Michael Baugus on February 10, 2010 at 19:05 said:

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Beautiful siting! Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos. http://bit.ly/cZQaUT

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Hernan on February 22, 2010 at 10:28 said:

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Really boring layout, boring project, there is not a single interesting space

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REHA GERÇEK on April 16, 2010 at 13:58 said:

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Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos | ArchDaily: http://bit.ly/bkkk8K via @addthis

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y_tosaki on May 29, 2010 at 11:46 said:

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Reading: "Y House / Jorge Sousa Santos | ArchDaily"( http://twitthis.com/5vi82i )

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K.M.Huh on July 24, 2010 at 6:42 said:

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Why are all the comments twinkling?? Are you not suffering such things? Comments disappear and again appear. Anyone knows how to do with it?

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