The Courtyard House
The brief was not “add a pool.” It was to make the back of the house feel complete. The resulting landscape organizes arrival, dining, swimming and evening light around a central water court.
- Challenge
- Three disconnected elevations and limited privacy
- Response
- A raised garden datum, layered canopy and one continuous stone plane
- Planting
- Shade-tolerant evergreens, textural grasses and white summer bloom