patio deck

by Thomas DeVoss

irecyclart:Little Chelsea courtyard gardenA Chelsea courtyard garden, where access was restricted to going through an immaculately furnished house. The garden is defined by changes in flooring material of decking and sawn paving. The design combines…

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Little Chelsea courtyard garden

A Chelsea courtyard garden, where access was restricted to going through an immaculately furnished house. The garden is defined by changes in flooring material of decking and sawn paving. The design combines seating with an overhead, outdoor heater, an integrated kitchen with a barbecue, a…
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by Thomas DeVoss

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Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern, Spain - Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitectura

Walden 7 consists of a fourteen-storey cluster of 446 apartments, grouped around five courtyards, on top of which are two swimming pools. With few exceptions, each apartment face both outside of the block and into one of the courtyards, at many levels, there is a complex system of bridges and balconies for access producing a fantastic variety of vistas and enclosures.

The exterior facade has the appearance of a huge fortification completely painted in red, which is opened to the exterior through large overtures like urban windows of several stories high. The courtyards have a lively treatment because of the intense blue and yellow colored facade. The main courtyard, at the building’s entrance, is a recovery of the street and the plaza for the benefit of the inhabitants, which generates an interior world apart from the exterior chaos.