Architectural Record 4:96, P.70-75
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Y House, Catskills, New York, USA, 1999 designed by Steven Holl Architects
the "Y" House ascends the hill, splitting to form two arms, ending in balconies. The "Y" cuts a slice of sky and draws the sun into the heart of the house. Like a found forked stick, the Y makes a primitive mark on a vast site. -- architect's web site
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Y House, Arelho, Óbidos, Portugal, 2003 designed by Jorge Sousa Santos
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. --
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| Source: dirkdenisonarchitects.com |
Piku Residence, Orchard Lake, Michigan, USA, designed by Dirk Denison Architects with Adrian Luchini
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| Source: Peter Clarke archdaily.com |
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Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, 2008 designed by Inarc Architects
The Red House plan is a linear arrangement of spaces emanating radially a central hub. The long kinked and fragmented plan allows for a variety of daylight and views in every room. The linear plan results in a long and low angular building form which is nestled into the contours of the hill. From a distance the rusted steel cladding appears solid, closer inspection reveals a transparent veil of perforations. The uniformity of the cladding and the jagged composition of walls and roof suggest house as sculpture, something timeless, non utilitarian and something which will preserve the excitement generated by this site. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: construction.com |
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Villa 1, Ede, the Netherlands, designed by Powerhouse Company
“Everything—the shape and the overhang of the roof, the positioning of the building—was determined by the orientation to the sun,” says de Ru. “It allows generous light in the winter and shades the rooms in the summer in order to keep the house from overheating.” This relationship to daylight resulted in the unique plan of the house, roughly the shape of a Y with a short stem. --
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| Source: 100 Planos Arquitectura |
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Jorge Gudes’s House, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Portugal, 2010 designed by 100 Planos Arquitectura
The house is an organic whole, composed by three bodies, which extends through the floor, searching each one of the volumes for the best orientation, solar and landscape, closing in itself, the different valences of the house. A “Y”, where the intersection of the arms is both the entry and the point of distribution, separating the public spaces from the private areas. --
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| Source: J. Mayer H. Architects Archdaily.com |
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SAG – Airport Building, Mestia, Georgia, 2010 designed by J. Mayer H. Architects
The new built airport is part of the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili‘s ambitious plans to develop tourism in Mestia. The beautiful medieval town with its stone defensive towers is part of UNESCO‘s list of World Heritage Sites and also famous as ski-resort. With the unveiling of the airport on December 24th the building was designed and constructed within 3 months. --ArchDaily
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Cascading Creek House, Austin, Texas, USA, 2011 designed by Bercy Chen Studio
"inserts two long native limestone walls to the sloping site, serving as spines for the public wing and private wing of the house." So immediately we have the Y-shape , which is derived from the program but also the site -- in both the distant (views) and immediate (preserving trees) sense of the term. --
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| Source: Bert Leandersson archdaily.com |
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Arlevagen, Floda, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011 designed by Helhetshus
The boomerang-shaped building leaves an open space towards the street and a more secluded garden space south of the building witch is maximised by placing the buildings as far north as possible on each plot. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Nic Bailey archdaily.com |
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Nishi Sales Suite and Gallery, New Acton Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 2011 designed by hungerford+edmunds + OCULUS
The Y plan form was a response to the geometry of the site, and provides a dual aspect relating to the landscape and with attendant opportunities to differentiate the internal display space. The urban response to the heritage listed Acton Hotel on the opposite side of Kendall Lane is a hard edge to define the laneway. -- ArchDaily
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Guesthouse, Ancram, New York, USA, 2011 designed by HHF architects + Ai Weiwei
The guesthouse brief posited three main elements: a bedroom, a workroom and a gallery for the two collectors’ art. One simple and highly effective gesture – a Y-shaped ground plan – served to link these elements at isolated points and to define the overall appearance of the guesthouse. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Sandra Pereznieto archdaily.com |
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Tepoztlan Lounge, Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico, 2012 designed by Cadaval & Solà-Morales
The design establishes three separate living quarters designed in
accordance to the 3 activities planned; each of them is a set space
defined by its use, but also by a very clear and simple architectural
container.... it is the desire to give continuity between these three separate areas
where the project is empowered and becomes meaningful; a continuous
space, in full contact with the nature but protected from its inclemency
is set up not only to expand the enclosed uses, but also to allow new
activities to arise. --
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| Source: Salvatore Gozzo archdaily.com |
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P Houses, Capaci, Italy designed by SM-arch
Located in the higher part of the lot, the two tangent volumes, intended for the two housing units, diverge thus guaranteeing a further exposure and enclosing a part of the garden more withdrawn and introvert, open solely to the sea and the ‘Femmine’ island landscape. --
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| Source: Imbue Design archdaily.com |
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Buddhist Retreat, Torrey, Utah, USA, 2012 designed by Imbue Design
Flush with the ground at the top of the site, the entry deck of the house projects horizontally out into space toward the red rock gateway of the park as the topography slopes down toward the verdant valley below. The result is a space that suspends the user in a grand moment for group meditation, free and clear of visual and mental obstruction. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Dianna Snape archdaily.com |
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The University of Notre Dame Australia Werribee Clinical School, Werribee, Victoria, Australia, 2012 designed by DesignInc
The building is organised into five main zones; public, teaching, office administration, research and consultation suites. The central breakout or ‘hub’ is the main focal point of the building. It is a social space that facilitates interaction between staff, students and visiting public. The main entrances to the building and the primary public functions are organised within this central zone. The rest of the zones and their main circulation corridors are arranged to radiate off the central hub. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: John Mills archdaily.com |
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Helensvale Branch Library and CCYC, Helensvale, Queensland, Australia, 2013 designed by Complete Urban + lahznimmo architects
The design brings the library and community centre together around a
shared indoor plaza called the ‘Neighbourhood Room’, which is an
extension of the new outdoor plaza. This naturally ventilated and lit
space is the focus of the new building — a cool, shaded reprieve from
the Queensland sun, and a much needed public gathering space. It acts as
an entry and address for each of the building functions, as well as
vertically linking the three levels. --
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| Source: Bruce Cole Photography archdaily.com |
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Holston River House, Mascot, Tennessee, USA, 2013 designed by Sanders Pace Architecture
In order to maximize the access to views from the building’s three main
zones the public space was dislocated from the primary linear form
creating a “dogtrot” condition between these primary forms. --
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| Source: Julien Attard archdaily.com |
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La Cabotte, Barrage de Donzère-Mondragon, Bollène, France, 2013 designed by H20 Architectes
....three functions: a place to welcome visitors with a space dedicated to
wine-tasting, an office and washrooms for the wine growers. The project is based on a star-plan with three branches, each one
corresponding to one of the functions listed above. The structure and
the wooden envelope include the furniture elements for the wine-tasting
space and the office. This gives a real thickness to the walls and
recalls the original constructive principles of the “cabotte”. --
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| Source: Filip Dujardin archdaily.com |
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Villa Moerkensheide, De Pinte, Belgium, 2013 designed by Dieter De Vos Architecten
An explicit orientation to the sun shapes the tripartite composition of
the house. Three gardens formally complement the composition, each
garden intended for a specific time of day: morning, afternoon, evening. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Christian Richters archdaily.com |
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Rabobank Westelijke Mijnstreek Advice Centre, Sittard, The Netherlands, 2014 designed by Mecanoo
Upon entry under the curved ceiling with sculptural skylights, you can
survey, in one glance, the whole building and your curiosity is further
ignited for activities on the upper floors. These are designed as
staggering terraces that meander around the loft as a white ribbon. They
invite you to take the zigzagging stairs and not the elevator. --
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| Source: Iwan Baan archdaily.com |
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Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, 2014 designed by Studio Gang
The building is likewise designed to respond sensitively to its distinct
yet adjacent physical contexts: a residential neighborhood, the college
campus, and a native woodland grove. Its tri-axial plan addresses and
unites all three contexts with large transparent facades connected by
concavely inflected arcing walls that embrace the interior space. --
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| Source: Michael Moran / OTTO archdaily.com |
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36 SML House, Amagansett, NY, USA, 2014 designed by LEVENBETTS
....a triple- spoked house, is comprised of thin wings joined at an outdoor
center with as much openness as practical. The three wings contain
garage, kitchen/dining and living/ study on the ground floor and
parents, kids and guest wings on the second floor. The triple-spoke organization creates an alternative site plan that is
counter to the front yard back yard organization of the typical
single-family house lot. --
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| Source: Marcel van der Burg archdaily.com |
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Tea House 'Tuin van Noord', Joop Vervoornpad 1, 2316 EP Leiden, Netherlands, 2015 designed by GAAGA
Tea house 'Tuin van Noord' is a small scale, low-budget project
initiated by local residents. It functions as a community gathering
place located in a local park in Leiden (NL), a historic city in the Netherlands. The tea house, almost completely made of prefabricated structural wooden
elements, has a three-legged shape. In the middle - where the three
legs meet - the seating area is situated, thus emphasizing its central
function. --
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