Yo-Ju Courtyard House, Clyde Hill Washington
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Yo-Ju Courtyard House in Clyde Hill
Jun 14, 2021
Yo-Ju Courtyard House
Architects: Wittman Estes
Location: Clyde Hill, Washington, USA
What happens to the suburban single-family home as cities become dense and privacy becomes limited" It must look inward. Through a series of thresholds from opaque to transparent, Yo-Ju Courtyard House, which means ?secluded living? in Mandarin Chinese, embraces the future of suburban density by establishing a private experience despite being adjacent to a busy arterial street in the Clyde Hill neighborhood of Bellevue.
Home to an active family with three young children, the architects addressed the challenges of future density?the danger of increasing traffic with playful children, noise pollution, and decreased amount of natural vegetation?by having the house look inward instead of outward.
The house draws upon the traditions of ?Chinese courtyard and garden design, along with the ideas underlying Chinese landscape painting techniques, to rethink the traditional single-family home? says architect Matt Wittman.
The 3,460-sf home is organized in three elements: 1) the entry courtyard, which is screened from busy NE 24th Street; 2) the living volume, which presents an opaque facade to the street, and a transparent facade to the rear; and 3) the garden courtyard, which is composed of a secluded zone in the rear yard where child...
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