Portugal based SousaSantos Architects have sent us some photos of the Y House they designed.

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.

This house is composed of three volumes with different functional programmes that combine into a single element by the intersection space which forms the living room. This space offers a great panoramic view of the landscape. The use-ways were developed by the south-north axes (rooms) and east-west (main services) which transform the living room as a connecting vortex with the library that is located at the west side of the construction. The concept of the landscape as a reflection of everyday life was the main design element for this project. Visit the SousaSantos website – here.