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Southwest Fence & DeckImmagine di un grande patio o portico minimal dietro casa con un focolare, ghiaia e una pergola
PergolaHausIdee per un patio o portico stile rurale di medie dimensioni e dietro casa con ghiaia e una pergola
Ispirazione per un patio o portico country di medie dimensioni e in cortile con un focolare, ghiaia e una pergola
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignThis shade arbor, located in The Woodlands, TX north of Houston, spans the entire length of the back yard. It combines a number of elements with custom structures that were constructed to emulate specific aspects of a Zen garden. The homeowner wanted a low-maintenance garden whose beauty could withstand the tough seasonal weather that strikes the area at various times of the year. He also desired a mood-altering aesthetic that would relax the senses and calm the mind. Most importantly, he wanted this meditative environment completely shielded from the outside world so he could find serenity in total privacy.
The most unique design element in this entire project is the roof of the shade arbor itself. It features a “negative space” leaf pattern that was designed in a software suite and cut out of the metal with a water jet cutter. Each form in the pattern is loosely suggestive of either a leaf, or a cluster of leaves.
These small, negative spaces cut from the metal are the source of the structure’ powerful visual and emotional impact. During the day, sunlight shines down and highlights columns, furniture, plantings, and gravel with a blend of dappling and shade that make you feel like you are sitting under the branches of a tree.
At night, the effects are even more brilliant. Skillfully concealed lights mounted on the trusses reflect off the steel in places, while in other places they penetrate the negative spaces, cascading brilliant patterns of ambient light down on vegetation, hardscape, and water alike.
The shade arbor shelters two gravel patios that are almost identical in space. The patio closest to the living room features a mini outdoor dining room, replete with tables and chairs. The patio is ornamented with a blend of ornamental grass, a small human figurine sculpture, and mid-level impact ground cover.
Gravel was chosen as the preferred hardscape material because of its Zen-like connotations. It is also remarkably soft to walk on, helping to set the mood for a relaxed afternoon in the dappled shade of gently filtered sunlight.
The second patio, spaced 15 feet away from the first, resides adjacent to the home at the opposite end of the shade arbor. Like its twin, it is also ornamented with ground cover borders, ornamental grasses, and a large urn identical to the first. Seating here is even more private and contemplative. Instead of a table and chairs, there is a large decorative concrete bench cut in the shape of a giant four-leaf clover.
Spanning the distance between these two patios, a bluestone walkway connects the two spaces. Along the way, its borders are punctuated in places by low-level ornamental grasses, a large flowering bush, another sculpture in the form of human faces, and foxtail ferns that spring up from a spread of river rock that punctuates the ends of the walkway.
The meditative quality of the shade arbor is reinforced by two special features. The first of these is a disappearing fountain that flows from the top of a large vertical stone embedded like a monolith in the other edges of the river rock. The drains and pumps to this fountain are carefully concealed underneath the covering of smooth stones, and the sound of the water is only barely perceptible, as if it is trying to force you to let go of your thoughts to hear it.
A large piece of core-10 steel, which is deliberately intended to rust quickly, rises up like an arced wall from behind the fountain stone. The dark color of the metal helps the casual viewer catch just a glimpse of light reflecting off the slow trickle of water that runs down the side of the stone into the river rock bed.
To complete the quiet moment that the shade arbor is intended to invoke, a thick wall of cypress trees rises up on all sides of the yard, completely shutting out the disturbances of the world with a comforting wall of living greenery that comforts the thoughts and emotions.
Tierra Madre Fine GardensFoto di un piccolo patio o portico minimal dietro casa con ghiaia e una pergola
Clearwater Landscape & NurseryIspirazione per un patio o portico shabby-chic style con ghiaia e una pergola
OutdoraImmagine di un patio o portico stile rurale di medie dimensioni e dietro casa con ghiaia e una pergola
Paul Maue Associates Landscape ArchitectsThe pergola has a bench on the far side that gives a layered view of the gardens that flank the gravel path, the stone landing at the edge of the pond and beyond across the lawn to the perimeter border garden.
Photo: Paul Maue
Christian Douglas Design, Inc.Ispirazione per un patio o portico di medie dimensioni con un focolare, una pergola e ghiaia
Four Seasons Garden Center & Custom LandscapeImmagine di un patio o portico minimal di medie dimensioni e dietro casa con un focolare, ghiaia e una pergola
Change House Design and ConstructionCourtyard
Ispirazione per un patio o portico country con ghiaia e una pergola
Ispirazione per un patio o portico country con ghiaia e una pergola
Greenhaven Landscapes Inc.Hear what our clients, Lisa & Rick, have to say about their project by clicking on the Facebook link and then the Videos tab.
Hannah Goering Photography
Regenesis Ecological DesignSteel + Cedar arbor shades this entrance courtyard, while blooming COR-TEN planters brighten up the space.
Foto di un piccolo patio o portico moderno in cortile con un giardino in vaso, ghiaia e una pergola
Foto di un piccolo patio o portico moderno in cortile con un giardino in vaso, ghiaia e una pergola
Danielle Rosede belles pierres en carrelage ont été posées devant les ouvertures et du gravier pour la suite de la terrasse.
Ispirazione per un patio o portico country con ghiaia e una pergola
Ispirazione per un patio o portico country con ghiaia e una pergola
Violante & Rochford InteriorsIdee per un patio o portico classico di medie dimensioni e nel cortile laterale con ghiaia e una pergola
Violante & Rochford InteriorsFoto di un patio o portico chic di medie dimensioni e nel cortile laterale con ghiaia e una pergola
Sara Alfieri Architecte DPLGImmagine di un patio o portico mediterraneo di medie dimensioni e davanti casa con un giardino in vaso, ghiaia e una pergola
Southwest Fence & DeckIdee per un grande patio o portico contemporaneo dietro casa con un focolare, ghiaia e una pergola
Regenesis Ecological DesignSteel + Cedar arbor shades a compact concrete courtyard with edge plantings of Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'. A hand-made Quartzite veneer wall encloses the space.
Inside Story PhotographyInside Story Photography - Tracey Bloxham
Immagine di un patio o portico stile shabby di medie dimensioni e dietro casa con ghiaia, un focolare e una pergola
Immagine di un patio o portico stile shabby di medie dimensioni e dietro casa con ghiaia, un focolare e una pergola
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