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Private Terrace on the Street

Opening context:
Common Areas at the Heart, Sequence of Sitting Spaces, Half-hidden Garden, Green Streets, Pedestrian Street

Conflict

The relationship of a house to a street is often confused: either the house open entirely to the street and there is no privacy; or the house turns its back on the street, and communion with the street life is lost.

Resolution

Let the common rooms open onto a wide terrace or a porch which looks into the street. Raise the terrace slightly above street level and protect it with a low wall, which you can see over if you sit near it, but which prevents people on the street from looking into the common rooms.

Closing context:
Terraced Slope, Sitting Circle, Garden Wall, Half-Open Wall, Outdoor Room