Yo-Ju Courtyard House / Wittman Estes
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.


- architects: Wittman Estes
- Location: Clyde Hill, Washington 98004, United States
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Andrew Pogue
- Photographs: Henrybuilt
- Area: 3460.0 ft2