patio deck
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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.
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Villa Blåbär by pS Arkitektur
The surrounding nature and slope dictated the shape of this house fully covered in black roofing felt, and features the beautifully crafted timber deck.