Check out this house with 80 windows
With numerous windows that open out onto greenery as well as into different rooms, staying at home is never boring for this family of three.
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From the outside, it is hard to tell how many levels the Window House has. Openings of various sizes arranged in a seemingly random pattern puncture the facade of the two-and-a-half-storey house with a basement, blurring scale and stratification.
There are 80 windows in all on the external and internal walls of the house designed by Formwerkz Architects and Super Assembly. The latter’s founder, Iskandar Idris, honed his skills at the former, reputed for its inventive dwelling designs. He still works part-time there.It is not just the windows that give intrigue to this house, lived in by a couple, their four-year-old daughter and their helper. The internal layout – an Escher-like sequence of spaces tunnelling from one to another around a landscaped courtyard – makes moving through it equally compelling.
The multitude of windows, some aligned to visually connect to other internal spaces, stretch and multiply perspectives to make the house appear bigger than it is. They also frame views of the landscape, bring awareness to happenings in different parts of the house, and enhance natural illumination.
“You cannot really read the house from the outside; you need to enter and explore, and then the house reveals itself. What you see is always changing as you move, so the experiences are never the same,” said Idris.
This ambulatory aspect is deliberate. The owner did not like the characterless, singular, vast living areas in other homes he had visited.
