Y House in Portugal

Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos

Y HOUSE

Jorge Sousa Santos

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Óbidos, Portugal

YEAR
2006

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.

Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos

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 in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos

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.

Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos


Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos
Y House in Portugal
© Jorge Sousa Santos


Y House in Portugal
Y House in Portugal


Y House in Portugal
Y House in Portugal