LIVING ENVIRONMENTS NW Ltd

Concepts

Design Concepts and Definitions

Outside Room

This is a landscape space that:

• can be directly viewed from inside the house 

• has the feeling of an "enclosure." 

• provide light, privacy, and security and at the same time      make an interior space feel larger.

 Such a space can be a garden, an entry court, a spa, or a quiet sitting area.  Big or small, such spaces can part of our view and part of what we experience for the interior.

Window Size

The larger a window:

• the freer the visual access

• the  greater the need for the landscape to provide views, privacy and weather control. 

• views  become easier and the outside becomes more and more a part of the inside. 

 If we stand in the living room and look out into a private garden (an outside room),  we bring the feeling of that garden into the space we are in.   Without the garden or outside room we are in a fish bowl.  With the garden room, we are part of the landscape.

Visual Access

This is the ability to visually incorporate another space into the space we are in.   If there are minimal visual obstructions between us and the space we are viewing,  we feel like we are in a larger space that incorporates both spaces.

Visual Blocks

Visual blocks are obstructions that limit our view of another space, such as a bush in front of a window.   When trying to visually incorporate the garden with the interior space,  the worst blocks are often the windows themselves.  Too much detail such as large frames, grids across the glass, and irregular spacing or size can draw attention away from the view outside.

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