Landscaping Ideas for Courtyard Houses

Patio House / 24 7 Arquitetura. Image: © Adriano Pacelli

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The advantages of a courtyard house are well known. In addition to bringing closer contact with the outside from the inside, it substantially improves comfort by providing more natural lighting and ventilation. This typology goes through time being reinvented from different ways of thinking not only its architecture, but also the landscaping of its external area. Therefore, we have gathered different ways of conceiving the garden and other elements that can make up that space.

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Integration With Furniture

In a design that seeks greater integration between the use of the area and the created garden, thinking about furniture that integrates with the plants and architecture is a way of making the landscaping even richer.

Patio House / herchell arquitectos

Patio House / herchell arquitectos. Image: © Lorena Darquea Schettini

Courtyard House at the foot of the Great Wall / IAPA Design Consultants

Courtyard House at the foot of the Great Wall / IAPA Design Consultants. Image: Cortesia de IAPA Design Consultants

Less is More

The minimalist garden concept can be somewhat contradictory. To avoid it, we can imagine how much some elements can be selected so that they stand out. Whether they are a tree or even a small intervention in the topography, they create a focal point and keep the context of the environment more serene.

Micro Courtyard House / Atelier Kaiser Shen

Micro Courtyard House / Atelier Kaiser Shen. Image: © Nicolai Rapp

Courtyard House / Ha Architecture

Courtyard House / Ha Architecture. Image: © Tom Ross

Natural landscaping

Garden maintenance is not always easy, so some people opt for native plants and create a naturalistic landscape that, in addition to having an easier adaptation to the climate and soil, can also be attractive to different animals and insects from the area for your patio.

Courtyard House / NO ARCHITECTURE

Courtyard House / NO ARCHITECTURE. Image: © NOA

Nagoya Courthouse / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Nagoya Courthouse / Takeshi Hosaka Architects. Image: © Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc.

Dry Courtyard

Totally free space would be ideal for those looking to use it in different ways. The important thing here is to think of ways to maintain the soil permeability, either by using permeable materials or creating an edge through which water can flow.

Patio House / PROMONTORIO

Patio House / PROMONTORIO. Image: © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Patio House / Undurraga Devés Arquitectos

Patio House / Undurraga Devés Arquitectos. Image: © Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma

Different paving

One way to make the courtyard design more playful is also to play with the rhythm given to the paving. Here, it is worth looking for different types of material or patterns, which mix textures and materials.

Patio House / 24 7 Arquitetura

Patio House / 24 7 Arquitetura. Image: © Adriano Pacelli

Patio House / OOAK Architects

Patio House / OOAK Architects. Image: © Yiorgos Kordakis

The Presence of Water

Implementing water as an element in the courtyard can make the space even more synesthetic by bringing new sensations to smell and hearing. In addition to the playful factor that it adds to the environment, it becomes an invitation for people to see your movement, refresh their feet or even feed fish.

Zhan Yuan Courtyard House for Gazing / Wee Studio

Zhan Yuan Courtyard House for Gazing / Wee Studio. Image: © Haiting Sun

Fitzroy Bridge House / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Fitzroy Bridge House / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design. Image: © Derek Swalwell

Our Correspondent

Hamirpur, April 11

Delay in construction of retaining walls along houses under the Keeratpur-Ner Chowk four-laning project is worrying villagers.

Significantly, the construction company responsible for the four-laning project had excavated hills recklessly and posed threat of landslides. Foundation of many houses close to the excavation were exposed and the threat of their caving in looms large. Some of the families had already moved out of such houses and had taken shelter in rented accommodations or living elsewhere.

Despite several complaints against the working of the company to the district administration by the affected people, nothing has been done.

Firm directed to do needful

I visited the Keeratpur-Ner Chowk four-laning project and directed company engineers to construct protection walls at the earliest. GCC construction company General Manager Col BS Chauhan has also been directed to solve the grievances of people concerned. — Pankaj Rai, Deputy Commissioner

They also alleged that the administration was not paying heed to their problems. Ramesh Kumar of Bhager village said the company engineers always ignore the issue of ensuring safety of houses or land. He said they were assured that the construction of protection walls would be done soon but nothing had been done so far.

Raj Kumar of the same area said if protection walls to affected houses were not constructed before monsoon, many houses could cave in leading to heavy loss of property and human life.

Notably, the four-lane stretch between Keeratpur and Ner Chowk is 47-km long. As per the DPR, there would be over 10 tunnels measuring about five km.

Deputy Commissioner Pankaj Rai said he had visited the four-laning project and directed company engineers to construct protection walls at the earliest. He said GCC construction company General Manager Col BS Chauhan was directed to solve the grievances of people concerned. The DC also advised Sub-Divisional Officers of Bilaspur Sadar and Naina Devi to provide every help required by people in this regard.

Retaining walls collapsed after heavy rain and damaged up to four houses in various incidents on Sunday.

A house was damaged after a retaining wall collapsed on it in Pattori, on the border of Konaje Police Station. Three children, Akash, Ashwith, and three-year-old Aradhya, who were in the house, had a precautionary escape when they ran out of the house when the retaining wall fell on the house.

With the house completely damaged, a philanthropist, Prakash Shetty, Thirumal Swamy and his family in Asaigoli offered temporary protection.

Another house in Pulimchady, Konaje Gram Panchayat, was damaged after a retaining wall collapsed. Konaje Gram Panchayat President Nazeer Shah visited the home of an Antony Vincent Lobo.

A Razia was injured when a retaining wall fell on their home in Amblamogaru, Tilaknagar. Another house in Kavoor was also damaged by heavy rain. In the Taluks of Belthangady, Sullia and Puttur it rained heavily on Sunday.

Rainwater flooded shops and houses in Kanyana Kelagina Pete in Vittal in Bantwal taluk.

Huge waves crashed against the berms laid ashore in Kaiko, Kilirayanagar, Kodi, Kotepura, Mogaveerapatna, Ucchil and Someshwara. However, no homes were damaged, sources said DH.

In the Chikkamagaluru district

Some parts of the Chikkamagaluru district received rain on Sunday. During the day it rained at times in the district.

Heavy rain lashed Mudigere, Balehonnur and NR Pur. Kottigehara received 5 cm of precipitation.

The city of Chikkamagaluru, Sringeri, Koppa and the surrounding area received moderate rainfall.

In the Kodagu district

Kodagu district even received heavy rains on Sunday.

Intermittent rain lashed Madikeri, Talacauvery, Bhagamandala and Napoklu.