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Outdoor Room

Opening context:
Common Areas at the Heart, Farmhouse Kitchen, Sequence of Sitting Spaces, Half-hidden Garden, Sunny Place

Conflict

A garden is the place for lying in the grass, swinging, croquet, growing flowers, throwing a ball for the dog. But there is another way of being outdoors: and it needs are not met by the garden at all.

Resolution

Build a place outdoors which has so much enclosure round it, that it takes on the feeling of a room, even though it is open to the sky. To do this, define it at the corners with columns, perhaps roof it partially with a trellis or a sliding canvas roof, and create “walls” around it, with fences, sitting walls, screens, hedges, or the exterior walls of the building itself.

Closing context:
Column Place, Garden Wall, Sitting Wall, Trellised Walk, Connection to the Earth