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An upper-level media room.
The garden effortlessly integrates the outdoors into the living space.
Through the bright front door, a hallway leads to a spacious living and dining room, which opens to a garden.
The property also has a 530-square-foot deck. Stairs from the deck lead to a children’s play area below.
Outdoor spaces are incorporated into every level of the house.
This second-floor extension, which is clad in zinc, rises from the rear of the building.
To keep the original street-level exterior view, the second-floor addition was set back from the building’s existing façade.
Wooden slats inserted in the stone shell hint at the stripped-down, more modern interior, while also creating privacy and protection from the sun.
The home opens up to, and connects with, the surrounding neighborhood.
The outdoor swimming pool is just steps from the comfort of the living spaces.
With assistance from landscape designer Monica Viarengo, the outdoor space has been designed to draw the excitement of the city in toward the home.
A wood promenade connects the beachside retreat directly to the bay.
A full-height wall of glazing connects the poolside elements to the interior living spaces.
A large pool sits on the southwest side of the Planar House.
Amenities include a pool with a waterfall and a sunken tennis court.
From the rooftop terrace, there are stunning views of both the ocean and the mountains.
To obtain a rosy hue, pigments from the local red soil were mixed with plaster.
A spacious wood-decked veranda that's part of the duplex apartment.
Outdoor Deck at Living & Dining Rooms
All the decade-old trees within and around the existing house were retained.
Built with thick stone walls that create two horizontal planes in between the forest, the house has a roof made of glass and steel.
On the lower level is a fully-glazed living and dining space that leads to an outdoor pool and terrace area.
This volume has a rough hewn façade of stacked stones, and a green roof that seems to meld with the green hills of the surrounding El Boldo Park.
The patio furniture is from CB2.
"Through its translucency, the curtain offers a counterpoint of exposure or enclosure depending on how light falls on it, enabling alternate diurnal qualities," says Gibson.
Using computer modeling of sunlight and shadow, Gibson developed a series of canopies of various heights, and designed extensions in a way that would allow them to house an external, stainless-steel mesh curtain.
The deep veranda, where a living lounge and outdoor dining area are located, reduces the amount of direct sunlight entering the house, which helps protect the fit-outs, furniture, and fabrics from weathering in the strong Australian sun.
They wanted their new home to better connect with the surrounding garden site, and include a sheltered outdoor space that would allow them to dine comfortably outdoors even in the hot summer months.
Gibson opened up the interiors to create an "engawa," an edging strip of non-tatami matted flooring in Japanese architecture, that he then enclosed in a steel mesh curtain.
Jorge and Paola proudly displayed their son’s name on their back patio for his christening. With plenty of cousins to keep him company, Max (in Paola’s arms at left) will undoubtedly be pleased that his parents decided to stay put in Tijuana.
A marble plinth filled with sand elevates the house, while also creating drywells to accept stormwater runoff.
The terraces offer its owners many different outdoors spaces where they can enjoy varied perspectives of nature around them.
By interweaving multiple terraces with solid spaces, Saxe has created a dynamic internal interaction between the two levels of the house.
The front of the house is composed of expansive, open terraces that look toward the boundary between the ocean and the jungle.
The outdoor dining and lounge area flows out toward the pool.
Sited on the back of a steep hill, the house is a lightweight and exposed structure with enclosed private rooms at the rear that transition into more open terraces in the front to capture the stunning surrounding views.
Those hammers and saws built a home for the family’s chickens, watched over by Apolo among outdoor furniture by Richard Schultz.
The porch is designed for living outdoors all summer long, and for parties and dinners with “a stable of friends who arrive announced and unannounced,” Tamarkin says. Courtesy Architects and Artisans.
The exterior is clad in 100-year-old cypress meticulously crafted for the home by former shipbuilder George Velmachos of Wright and Company. Courtesy Architects and Artisans.
The poured concrete foundation is clearly visible when viewing the back of the home.
Complemented by 5,600 square feet of outdoor space, the enclosed passage opens up to a central courtyard with a bocce court and a saltwater lap pool.
Butler Armsden placed the home on a poured-concrete platform, providing expansive views that reveal themselves only after passing through to the central courtyard of the house.
Usha and Mike Kreaden had a virtually blank slate when it came to the garden outside the 1958 Joseph Eichler house that they bought in Silicon Valley two decades ago.
The wraparound deck enhances the homes' indoor/outdoor lifestyle.
The barbeque area sits just off the kitchen and features built-in seating.
Thanks to the extensive glazing, even the interior courtyard enjoys perfectly framed vistas.
The deck is covered with an extended cedar canopy.
A raised dining nook furnished with Konstantin Grcic Ones for Magis makes outdoor dining a breeze.
The home’s undulating roof, composed of exposed wood beams and plywood sheathing, references the rolling terrain. A Cor-Ten steel–clad outdoor fireplace was built by BRD Construction; the same material was used for the interior fireplace, as surround on some windows, as cladding for the garage door, and on the chimney. The lounge chairs are from the Finn Collection from Design Within Reach. Tim Kirby of Surface Design Inc. tackled the site’s landscape architecture. - Leelanau County, Michigan Dwell Magazine : September / October 2017
Unable to alter the footprint of the building, the Deams created a backyard living area that nearly doubled the home's living space.
The patio features plenty of space, and includes a pool and fire pit.
There is a large, open patio on the exterior that is perfect for entertaining.
The terrace by the pool is a great spot to watch the sunset.
This transverse volume projects in an east-west direction out toward the sea. It includes a 23-foot cantilever that contains a gorgeous outdoor pool overlooking the ocean.
The staircase and ramp serve as vertical circulation, connecting the base and access levels.
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